Investments made by the expert team at East Midlands-based Moore
Stephens Financial Services have outperformed the market - a
research report published this month has revealed.
Jilly Mann, Operations Director at the Northampton, Corby and
Peterborough-based company, compared the firm's 2010 investment
performance against benchmarks such as the FTSE 100 index, FTSE All
Share Index and FTSE World Share Index.
Her research concluded that Moore Stephens Financial Services
investments outperformed when compared with every index, including
the FTSE Gilt Index and Libor (bank deposit rates).
Jilly explained: "We have outperformed when placed against every
index and, even more remarkable is that we have done this with far
less volatility - in other words much less risk. Normally the
reverse is true and to get higher returns you have to take more
risk. However, if you take our moderate risk portfolio as an
example, it outperformed the FTSE 100 index by a staggering 35% -
and it did so with almost half the level of risk."
And there is good news for cautious investors too. The Moore
Stephens Cautious portfolio produced a return of 15.55% during
2010, compared to only 1.41% if you had your money in an average
bank deposit account.
Jill added: "We put the company's success down to
diversification and the fact that we always err on the side of
caution. Our clients all have a similar outlook, they want us to
spread their money around in different types of investments and
they want us to generate good steady returns for them rather than
the get rich quick, boom or bust approach employed elsewhere."
These excellent investment results are not the first time staff
at Moore Stephens Financial Services have had reason to celebrate.
As well as having a record breaking year in 2010 Moore Stephens
Financial Services was also awarded Chartered Financial Planner
status, the culmination of six years hard work, and beat scores of
UK wide firms to be crowned the UK's Chartered Financial Planners
of the Year by the Personal Finance Society.