From: "stuart noble" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Trackers
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 09:18:03 +0100


john boyle wrote in message <9UiPz6SKhecAFwd6@johnboyle1.demon.co.uk>...
>In message , Stephen Burke
> writes
>>Out of interest I just looked at the performance of trackers on trustnet.
>>There are 526 UK unit trusts with a 5-year record; the Virgin All share
>>tracker is 436th and the L&G FTSE tracker is 504th. So much for the idea
the
>>trackers always outperform ...
>As I was saying about five years ago,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>:-)
>--
>John Boyle

Presumably there can't be too big a gap between no.1 and no. 526 if they're
all trackers. Or maybe The City's definition of tracking is to "hang about
in the general vicinity of".