The best performing unit trust over that period would have produced £9,481.
Then there were only 92 unit trusts on offer, compared with 1,423 today.
If you use unit trusts there is a lot of variety.
Put the rest in unit trusts with a long established firm.
There are about 1,400 unit trusts, so how do you choose?
More than 8,100 unit trusts have been organized and sold.
It is like buying a unit trust, you buy units in the fund.
And most standard unit trusts dissolve after a year or so.
In 1986 there were 146 management companies, managing over 800 unit trusts.
If you're not interested in unit trusts, how about a personal equity plan?