What’s Hot, What’s Not: Miners Shine, Emergers Drift [Fund Edition]

Fri 28 Aug 2026

By Joe Richardson

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What's Hot What's Not

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What’s Hot

·         All of the top 10 were driven by a sharp recovery in gold miners.

·         Our working assumption is that this is a bounce within a correction which is ongoing.

·         Why?  Because in a correction worthy of the name, investor sentiment turns very sour…

·         …and you will see little positive in the media about gold.

·         Neither of these factors apply now…

·         …so we assume a resumption of the downtrend which began in early March.

·         If the current bounce goes much higher, we are wrong.

 

What’s Not

·         Five emerging market funds feature in the duds…

·         …including China and Brazil.

·         Even so, falls are confined to 2-3%.

·         Two US small cap funds are suffering from concerns over their economy.

·         Two European property funds probably share the same concerns.



What’s Hot

Name

Sector

Last Month's Performance %

Amundi Gold Miners

Specialist

38.93

Ninety One Global Gold

Specialist

34.88

Tutman FS SVS Baker Steel Gold & Precious Metals

Specialist

34.19

BlackRock Gold & General

Specialist

34.16

Quilter Investors Precious Metals Equity

Specialist

33.45

WS Ruffer Gold

Specialist

31.16

WS Amati Strategic Metals

Commodity/Natural Resources

30.60

Jupiter Gold And Silver

Specialist

28.86

Tutman FS SVS Baker Steel Electrum

Commodity/Natural Resources

21.91

BlackRock World Mining

Commodity/Natural Resources

20.28



What’s Not

Name

Sector

Last Month's Performance %

GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity

Global Emerging Markets

-3.95

Cohen & Steers European Real Estate Securities

Listed Property

-3.29

Amundi MSCI China ESG Selection

China/Greater China

-3.25

Janus Henderson Horizon Pan European Property Equities

Listed Property

-2.92

GAM Star China Equity

China/Greater China

-2.90

WS Lancaster Absolute Return

Targeted Absolute Return

-2.79

CT American Smaller Companies (US)

North American Smaller Companies

-2.62

HSBC Brazil Equity

Specialist

-2.60

FTF Royce US Smaller Companies

North American Smaller Companies

-2.59

Pictet China Index

China/Greater China

-2.55

Fund performance 01/08/2026 – 27/08/2026. Funds <50m in size and ETFs excluded from the above research.

 

NOTE

We do this blog to simply highlight short term trends. These are not recommendations.

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