
Our Tips of the Year had a truly ghastly 2017. Some of the problems encountered were risks that had been foreseen but that we had not felt were likely to play out with such extreme gusto. Other issues our tips ran up against, however, were of a less predictable variety. All in all, this means a hang-our-heads-in-shame 13.4 per cent underperformance of the FTSE All-Share, which is the key index we rank our tips against. Needless to say, we will be hoping to do much better with our tips this year.