Which ISA funds are going to boom in 08/09

[bogeyman]

Are they tommorrow's high performers too?

Sure they are.

Remember how we all bought ISAs in high tech funds because we thought they'd be tomorrows high performers (Gartmore's infamous TechTornado fund springs to mind).

TechTurkey morelike - it was wiped out, but the 22 y/o fund managers still got a Porche out of it.

[DimPrawn]

Sure they are.

Remember how we all bought ISAs in high tech funds because we thought they'd be tomorrows high performers (Gartmore's infamous TechTornado fund springs to mind).

TechTurkey morelike - it was wiped out, but the 22 y/o fund managers still got a Porche out of it.

Ferrari ( x 2)
Country estate
Power boat
Villa in the Caribbean
....

[Bagpuss]

Marvellous, Just like the numerous share magazines and experts tipping Patientline and Northern Rock 18 months ago

[bogeyman]

Ferrari ( x 2)
Country estate
Power boat
Villa in the Caribbean
....

No. They didn't do that well thank God.

And I hope they were unemployable for a good long time (some hope).

There was a joke going around that it was called the 'Tornado' fund because it 'wiped out anything of value in its path'.

[thunderlizard]

Watch these trade tomorrow! They're gonna fly! Shut her off Bubba, she's pumping mud!

The best performers of 2008-9 will be:

Artemis European Bizarre Growth
Jupiter Antarctic Mid-Caps
Gartmore New Forest Death-Caps
Morton Harket's Emerging Markets
Fidelity UK Cautious Investor's Repo and Bailiff Sector Tracker
Aberdeen Asset Management's Fund of Other Funds We Bought but Don't Understand.
Ethel Wigginton Biscuit Tin Behind the Cat Food Fund
Atlantis China Healthcare Fund
Atlantic China Tobacco Fund

[Fred Bloggs]

Remember Framlington "netnet fund"?

Sure, natural resources funds will probably be OK in the short term. But the smart money is buying the things you "wouldn't touch with a barge pole". In five years time you'll be buying those funds too. Good luck.

[rootsnall]

The best performers of 2008-9 will be:

Artemis European Bizarre Growth
Jupiter Antarctic Mid-Caps
Gartmore New Forest Death-Caps
Morton Harket's Emerging Markets
Fidelity UK Cautious Investor's Repo and Bailiff Sector Tracker
Aberdeen Asset Management's Fund of Other Funds We Bought but Don't Understand.
Ethel Wigginton Biscuit Tin Behind the Cat Food Fund
Atlantis China Healthcare Fund
Atlantic China Tobacco Fund

The best performers of 2008-9 will be:

CASH !

That's my punt anyway, all my ISA and SIPP stuff is in cash, sitting and waiting. Slightly tempted by the banks for their divis alone but more downside I think yet.

[Fred Bloggs]

You'll never time the bottom right. (Did you time the top right? If so well done!). Drip feeding the money into funds/stocks is the best value method in times of uncertainty IMHO.

[rootsnall]

You'll never time the bottom right. (Did you time the top right? If so well done!). Drip feeding the money into funds/stocks is the best value method in times of uncertainty IMHO.

Sold a lot of stuff when the FTSE was about 6200, it went back above that at one stage but I don't think I'll lose out too badly if I don't reinvest at all in the next 12 months. What I'm looking to buy will be long term hold jobs if I do pounce. I know it's risky but it gives me something to worry about while I'm sat at my desk contracting.

[Fred Bloggs]

You did Ok then providing you didn't buy a few years back @ 6700

I got out of China a bit too early but it's never wrong to take a profit. Too early to go back in yet as a single country play but I am holding some activelt managed "global funds" that manage a fair portion of their portfolio in emerging economies. I'm drip feeding 3 global funds and 2 UK income funds at the moment. UK income did quite badly the last year or so, it's due a rebound.