Can you beat us to the £10k prize? Fantasy Fund Manager

The Money team’s strategies for a Fantasy win

There are just days left to be in with a chance to win £10,000 in our Fantasy Fund Manager competition, taking on almost 6,000 rivals in the quest for the highest returns.

As Telegraph staff cannot win, we

ADAM WILLIAMS

It may go against the grain to buy struggling companies but I hoped my “value investing” strategy would allow me to profit from firms that had taken an unfair stock market hit. My plan has been to look at the list of the biggest fallers and find the reasons why they had fallen.

I’ve had success with the drugs maker AstraZeneca but I haven’t always backed my own strategy enough. I avoided easyJet and British Airways owner IAG when prices fell as I couldn’t bring myself to invest in airlines when so few people were travelling.

I missed out as both companies rebounded from their lows.

SAM BENSTEAD

Investment reporter I began in 2020’s worstperforming shares, including Cineworld, easyJet and BP. I knew these firms would be volatile but thought the vaccine roll- out would boost their value. It paid off and my fund was one of the top performers at the game’s start. I switched into investment trusts that owned American shares to profit from Joe Biden’s growing political support. In hindsight I should have stuck with British stocks as they have been some of the biggest risers this year. I’m just inside the top 2,000 players and need to take a risk. I think oil and mining firms will benefit if global growth picks up. are playing for nothing – bar pride – so we have put a range of strategies to the test. Can you do any better?

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ISABELLE FRASER

Property editor My strategy has been centred on the “randomiser” button, based on the idea that my knowledge of the stock market is slim, so the only way I can outwit it is to embrace chaos. So far it has worked – almost too well. My fund has risen by 13pc, putting me in the top 300 players (and ahead of my Money colleagues).

The button invested in 4imprint Group, which sells customised promotional materials, Impax Environmental Markets, a fund, and Network International Holdings, a payments firm – none of which I’d heard of. But they’re all performing well. Perhaps it’s a lesson to embrace chance in all walks of life.

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