Five-year rankings upheaval set to shake up UK All Companies

The return of high-profile funds to the top of the performance charts is shaking up the UK equity rankings, just as the asset class returns to favour.

Fund selectors are drilling deeper into performance data as the traumatic market falls seen at the height of the credit crisis begin to disappear from five-year numbers. With late 2007 figures already falling out of the charts, a number of high-profile funds are returning to the top of the IMA UK All Companies sector on a five-year view, including Fidelity Special Situations, Schroder UK Mid 250 and Jupiter UK Growth. “The big story of this year is going to be equity funds focusing people’s attention as [2007/8] numbers fall out of the equation,” said Schroder UK Mid 250 manager Andy ...