How my fund tips have fared

This time last year I was more jittery than I need have been, says David C Stevenson. But the broad thrust of my arguments have stood the test of time.

This time last year I was more jittery than I need have been but the broad thrust ofmy arguments have stood the test of time.

I avoid too much navel-gazing on the success, or otherwise, of the investment ideas on these pages. Most of the strategiesI discuss are for investors with a time horizon of decades so 12 months of returns doesn't tell us much. But I do think it is worth reviewing my articles from this time last year, to see whether the broad thrust of the argument has changed.

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David C. Stevenson
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David Stevenson has been writing the Financial Times Adventurous Investor column for nearly 15 years and is also a regular columnist for Citywire. He writes his own widely read Adventurous Investor SubStack newsletter at davidstevenson.substack.com

David has also had a successful career as a media entrepreneur setting up the big European fintech news and event outfit www.altfi.com as well as www.etfstream.com in the asset management space. 

Before that, he was a founding partner in the Rocket Science Group, a successful corporate comms business. 

David has also written a number of books on investing, funds, ETFs, and stock picking and is currently a non-executive director on a number of stockmarket-listed funds including Gresham House Energy Storage and the Aurora Investment Trust. 

In what remains of his spare time he is a presiding justice on the Southampton magistrates bench.