Get all cash out of the bank

[TheHeathens]

Stolly just to correct you on one thing. Firstly the SFA has only banned short selling in financial stocks, not the whole market, plus they've only banned it for 3 months.

Damn it, the Scottish Football Association are diversifying into everything nowadays! Does short selling in financial stocks play for Rangers?

Thirdly the market has become flooded with them with many mainstream fund management organisations offering them and like any asset class, that sees massive growth, performance tends towards the mean as opportunites become more scarce due to the weight of money chasing them.

That's an interesting point.

Talking about mutual funds, the Schroder Mid 250 fund was one of the most successful fund a few years back due to it's success. However, because of this it became so big and ended up more like a tracker fund (tracking the Mid-Cap companies). It's really been hit badly during this economic downturn.

Of course, most of us wouldn't invest in just that fund