2020 was an extraordinary year – but not for stockpickers, because strategies that had done well in the past continued to beat the market.
One of these was defensive investing. My portfolio of these – an equal-weighted basket of the 20 stocks with the lowest beta over the past five years – rose by 8 per cent in the year.
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