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Equities enjoyed a good second quarter, with the FTSE 350 rising 20 per cent. You’d expect, therefore, that high beta stocks (those most sensitive to moves in the aggregate market) would have done well. And they have. My portfolio of them rose 41.2 per cent in the quarter, thanks in …

Momentum investing has begun to pay off again. In the second quarter my no-thought momentum portfolio (which comprises the 20 biggest rising stocks in the 12 months to March) rose by 4.3 per cent. In itself, this is only slight outperformance of the FTSE 350. But it is significant. Last …