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The Investment Stakes is a competition set by the Portfolio Management group measuring the performance of a dummy portfolio over seven months
At the third furlong marker Heather Jones maintained her healthy lead over her nearest challengers. Her three-stock portfolio was showing a gain of 22.2%, far ahead of the 2.2% registered by the FTSE 100 index.
We are now entering the trickiest part of the course, with the dreaded EU Referendum fence fast approaching. Let us hope that there are no fallers.