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Daily Fund Focus

Your guide to the good, the bad and the ugly of the investment fund universe.

Based on interviews with key industry figures and incisive analysis of why funds have made money or lost it, the guide gives you what you need to know about the investment galaxy.

From fast-growing small funds to Goliaths where growth is slowing down, Daily fund focus cuts through the jargon and sifts the complexity of fund management, from past performance to the risks you take and the charges you pay. - -

Fund focus: exploiter of positive trends

Gartmore China Opportunities fund found itself exposed to metals in the downturn and failed to exploit the stocks recovery, but is working hard to raise performance

Fund focus: rich seams in neglected zone

Baillie Gifford’s Japanese smaller companies fund has long-term optimism

Honeymoon bliss for smalls

Like others in the small companies sector, Marlborough Special Situations is mostly making hay

Purist predicts correction for some

Schroder UK Smaller Companies fund has performed well, but not as well as some

Fund focus: Trotting ahead of the big beasts

Troy Asset Management’s Trojan Income fund is cautious by nature