A good month all round with good increases across the board.

The “Sector of the Month” award goes to the Specialist sector with an increase of more than 10% since last month. This is the second time that the Specialist sector has won the award.

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Quite surprisingly there were a few sectors showing profits for December 2011 with the Sterling Corporate Bond sector winning sector of the month.

Sector of the year also goes to the Sterling Corporate Bond sector as one of the few sectors to show a profit over the 12 months to the end of December 2011

It’s getting a bit repetitive now with yet another volatile month of investment markets. However, the rally last week has provided a little respite and the sector faring the best was North America for the first time since June 2011 and it wins Sector of the month with a positive return of 2.5% since last month's report.

Markets in October were looking for some sort of resolution to the eurozone debt crisis and showed some welcome upwards movements, especially towards the end of the month. All sectors posted promising increases with the winner of sector of the month going to the Far East for the first time with the largest upward market movement for quite some time at almost 10%.

The announcement on 27 October seemed to support the rare feeling of positivity when the European summit provided some more encouraging news on what to do with Greece.