{"id":38404,"date":"2016-12-17T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-it-be-a-happy-new-year-for-your-investment-funds\/"},"modified":"2016-12-17T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T07:09:09","slug":"will-it-be-a-happy-new-year-for-your-investment-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/will-it-be-a-happy-new-year-for-your-investment-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Will it be a happy new year for your investment funds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nStock market investors have seen bumper returns, with the FTSE 100 soaring after the Brexit vote. We ask some of the biggest names in the business for their 2017 predictionsThe FTSE 100 index of Britain\u2019s biggest stock market-listed companies has enjoyed its strongest year since 2009, jumping from 6,137 at the start of the year to touch nearly 7,000 this week. Wall Street\u2019s S&amp;P 500 has hit record highs, with British investors gaining even more in sterling terms because of the fall in the currency. This has meant that some of the biggest funds popular with small investors \u2013 such as M&amp;G\u2019s \u00a36.3bn Global Dividend \u2013 have made gains of nearly 40% over the past year.But not everyone has shared in the party. The single biggest fund in the UK, Standard Life\u2019s \u00a326.3bn Global Absolute Return Strategies, has managed to lose money when almost everyone else has been coining it. The fund is down 3.3% over the past 12 months, compared with the 17% gain made by UK index-tracking funds over the same period. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/dec\/17\/investment-funds-bumper-returns-ftse-100-2017-predictions\" target=\"_blank\">Will it be a happy new year for your investment funds?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Stock market investors have seen bumper returns, with the FTSE 100 soaring after the Brexit&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-9Zq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89572,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/ridiculously-complex-top-financier-blasts-uks-biggest-fund\/","url_meta":{"origin":38404,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Ridiculously complex\u2019: Top financier blasts UK\u2019s biggest fund","date":"May 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A Standard Life fund that holds nearly \u00a320bn of Britons\u2019 cash should not have been sold to the public, says Alan MillerIt\u2019s the biggest single stock market fund in Britain, holding nearly \u00a320bn of small investors\u2019 cash. 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