MoneyWeek’s top ten tipsters of 2015

Despite it being a difficult year for British stocks, most of our share tipsters beat the FTSE 100. Here, we take a look at the most successful.

This has been another difficult year for the FTSE 100, due partly to its heavy weight in commodity stocks. The UK's benchmark index was showing a loss of 7.8% (4% including dividends) as of 18 December. Most of the City experts who contributed tips to our personal view column beat this. However, only half did better than the FTSE 250, which was almost unchanged over the year in price terms, and was up by 2.4%, including dividends.Our top ten analysis is in no way scientific.

The tips are all given at different times of the year, so some have a big advantage over others. We ask for long-term ideas, whereas our calculations are just a snapshot taken over a short period. And we only consider capital gains when working out our rankings, ignoring dividends. With that caveat in mind, we review our top tipsters' performance and find out their best ideas for 2016.

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