Going global good forthe long view

Investors can ease themselves back into a recovering market by buying into large global investment trusts. These vehicles are cost effective, resilient and provide access to a diversified portfolio of companies

The investment climate after the war in Iraq is very different to that of six months ago. Then the focus of many advisers and investment managers was firmly fixed on the bond market as a seemingly attractive place to achieve good and relatively safe levels of total return. Now the global political climate has settled down (to some extent) and evidence of some kind of a recovery and return to a state of confidence is filtering through. This has led many to wonder whether they backed the right horse, especially given that equity markets have rallied from their bottoms, while at the long e...