Despite a volatile month for equity markets, the investment trusts bought in April remained largely unchanged from the previous month, according to the data from our sister website, broker interactive investor.
After a difficult first quarter in which the FTSE All-Share index lost almost 7 per cent and the MSCI World more than 2 per cent, April has seen a return to better form.
One of the biggest challenges a do-it-yourself investor faces is finding the cream of the crop among the thousands of funds all aiming to do the same thing - beat the market and their peers.
Only 43 per cent of UK equity funds that were being operated at the start of 2008 were still going at the end of 2017, according to research carried out by
