Source: Lipper/Moneyfacts
Note: The table above is ordered by the best performance 1 January 2021 over the past 12 months. Funds may be available on other platforms not listed, through a stockbroking service or financial adviser.
This month four of the best performing investment ISAs over 12-months from our November review have remained in the top five. The LF Ruffer Gold Account has left this top five and is now the ninth best performing ISA investment fund. The top five has included at least one gold-based investment ISA since March last year when the pandemic started in the UK. LF Ruffer is now the last one to leave the top five.
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EELGOOD firms which put the environment, society and corporate governance - the holy trinity dubbed ESG - at the heart of their operations were the big winners to emerge from 2020’s Covid-19 battered economy.
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) which focus their investments on these ethical stocks recovered from the pandemic at a pace and scale which left other sectors standing. Covid was the moment,” one senior investment manager told the Standard. “Covid was the stress test for ESG. Before then, people were cynical, saying ESG was a fair-weather phenomenon. They’d say ’just you wait until the next recession, everyone will hunker back in sovereign bonds.’