Dan Nickols and Investors

Stock market volatility: Investing over this period has required patience – an essential, yet challenging discipline to master, according to The Independent. Given the magnitude of the financial crisis in 2008, the easiest and most comfortable option was to sell everything. Since then, investors have been richly rewarded. However, unless investments were sold at the top of the market prior to the crash, and repurchased at the bottom , this would have been a costly mistake. Stock market volatility during the crisis led the fund manager, Dan Nickols, to increase exposure to larger players within the smaller company sector; they can generally be traded more easily, providing greater flexibility in uncertain times. The fund suffered a fall of 45 per cent, but investors who held on have been well compensated: it has grown 271.6 per cent from its low in October 2008. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.