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US strength helped our Ultimate Stocks portfolio beat UK gloom in Q3

01/10/2019 · Craneware (CRW)  · Diageo (DGE)  · Intuit (INTU)  · Microsoft (MSFT)  · Quartix Technologies (QTX)  · Sage Group (SGE)  · Walt Disney (DIS) 

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A summer of political turmoil (and its knock-on impact on the UK stock markets) has hampered the growth of our Ultimate Stocks Portfolio in the third quarter. Over the longer term, we’re still beating the market and many well-known fund managers.


Following its phenomenal first few months, the Investor’s Champion’s Ultimate Stocks Portfolio has slowed down slightly over the summer, reporting just 1.3% growth in the third quarter of 2019, compared to a market-smashing 13% increase in the previous three months. That’s still a better performance than the FTSE 100 which contracted by a percent in the period, the FTSE All Share which fell 0.8% and the S&P 500 which rose just 0.4% in the three…

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