How the newspapers’ share tipsters fared last year

It has been a fairly good year for the newspapers’ new year share tips in 2017. Here we look at who got it right and who missed the mark.

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Row 0 - Cell 0 Share tips' performance for the year ending
Daily Telegraph-6.30%12.20%14.00%-2.21%21.53%
The Independent55.00%4.30%-6.77%12.53%6.13%
The Guardian11.80%2.30%-5.10%-13.49%-0.22%
The Sunday Times17.20%-13.50%-15.00%26.06%12.17%
The Times55.50%10.00%-8.60%0.84%20.24%
Daily Mail-6.90%-18.10%-10.20%-9.44%20.29%
Evening StandardN/AN/AN/AN/A45.50%
FTSE 10014.43%-2.71%-4.93%14.43%7.10%
FTSE 25028.77%0.94%8.36%3.71%14.01%

It has been a fairly good year for the newspapers' new year share tips.Most managed to beat the FTSE 250's 14% return, and all but two beat the FTSE 100's 7.1%. By far the best performance came from the Evening Standard, which we have included in our round-up for the first time.

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