B & CE Unit Trust Management Company Ltd

Advantages: European exposure
Disadvantages: poor performance

...Since the Peter Young debacle, the European Growth unit trust has underperformed its peer group by a significant margin. There has been very little in the way of explanation or apology for this, and this poor performance has come at a time when growth stocks have done well relative to the market yet this trust has scarcely performed well next to the total European index. On top of this we have to endure the extortionate charges !!! Some fund managers offer reduced fees post poor performance, too encourage keeping the money with them or even performance -related fees... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Efficient, reliable and reasonable value
Disadvantages: No obvious problems

...(which, let's face it, is as much as most small investors could manage given the costs of share-dealing etc.), you can pool your money with that of hundreds or thousands of others into one large fund. This fund is then run by a professional manager or company such as Nationwide Unit Trust Managers (or NUTM for short). The advantages are that you have the benefits of investing in a whole range of equities but can do so at very limited cost with very small sums of money. There are a great many such companies and managers out there, so don't take it from this opinion that NUTM is by far the best (nor that it is among the lower end of the scale). That judgement will to a large extent depend on your circumstances. Now, I'm not, as I said above, going to give an opinion on the quality of the investment strategies adopted by NUTM - I... Read review

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Advantages: It may be a good return
Disadvantages: You'd expect them to be awake

...To manage a fund you have to MANAGE the fund.... Read review

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