Gamble of the Week update: the tips that romped home

It has been exactly one year since I started writing this weekly column, so it seems like a good time to give you an update on my ‘gamble of the week’ tips. And overall, they've done pretty well.

It has been exactly one year since I started writing this weekly column, so it seems like a good time to give you an update on my gamble of the week' share tips. Overall, we have done pretty well, in that out of the 48 selections I have made over the year, 35 presently trade at levels higher than their tip prices that's a hit rate of 73%.

Moreover, if it is assumed that equal funds had been invested in each stock, then the overall portfolio return would have been 47.7%, which compares very favourably to the gains on the FTSE 100 (16.1%) and Aim (8.9%) indices over the same period.

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Paul gained a degree in electrical engineering and went on to qualify as a chartered management accountant. He has extensive corporate finance and investment experience and is a member of the Securities Institute.

Over the past 16 years Paul has held top-level financial management and M&A roles for blue-chip companies such as O2, GKN and Unilever. He is now director of his own capital investment and consultancy firm, PMH Capital Limited.

Paul is an expert at analysing companies in new, fast-growing markets, and is an extremely shrewd stock-picker.