We asked trusted experts to recommend the best funds and investment trusts that cover different investment industries – and included This is Money’s collection of active and passive options too. Investors are spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing money and investment trusts that can put their money to work.

Funds, trusts, and trackers deliver the chance to make investments in just about anything you can think of, anywhere you want to almost, at an inexpensive and with reduced effort. Yet, with all that choice comes a challenging task. An encounter with the set of almost 3,000 UK-based fund options on offer can be very confusing, even for a skilled investor. So we asked some trusted experts recommend the best funds that cover different investment sectors – and also included That is Money’s collection of some passive fund options too. To give you some investing ideas, here are 50 of the greatest money.

This is Money’s Top 50 money and investment trusts list is designed as a starting place for your investment ideas. Before you consider investing, it’s important that you do your own research and consider how an account, trust, or tracker may fit into your existing portfolio. You need to consider whether it’s best for you as an investor – and whether it’s befitting the assembled team of investments a balanced portfolio holds.

‘Rathbone Strategic Growth Portfolio is one of the new breed of funds that focus on risk and then turn to maximize profits,’ says FundCalibre’s Darius McDermott. ‘It is an account of funds with the manager selecting what his team like to call ‘best of breed’ money – if they are actively managed open-ended money, investment trusts or index funds. This account comes with an approximate 70:30 percentage between holdings in set equities and income, with the allocation managed and a concentrate on risk control and capital preservation actively,’ says FundCalibre’s Darius McDermott.

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• Notes payable may be released to creditors to fulfill previously created accounts payable
• Great exposure to a variety of valuable metals
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‘I really like the fact that the managers attend company meetings collectively and determine not only whether or not to invest, if the investment would be best made via the company’s equity or debt. While working out diversification and caution, a record is had by the fund of regularly outperforming the sector average and is a strong contender for cautious investors.

‘A cautious fund is one that is spread across several asset course, and which restricts how much can maintain the stock market’, says Fund Expert’s Brian Dennehy. ‘Most suitable for either a newbie investor or somebody who would find the day to day ups and downs of the currency markets too volatile. ‘The hunting ground for cautious funds is mainly two sectors. For less active investors we are looking for consistent performance over longer periods. At Newton Real Return, Suzanne Hutchins’ first priority is capital protection and then, over the long term, she looks to deliver profits of 4 % above cash per annum’, says Adrian Lowstick, at Willis Owen.

Hutchins runs an unconstrained and versatile approach which at first uses Newton’s thematic research to recognize opportunities. The fund invests in two parts; a core element which invests in shares and bonds with a long-term perspective and low turnover. Around the core Hutchins invests in cash, federal government derivatives and bonds in order to reduce risk. Pyrford Global Total Return invests in a combination of shares, government bonds, and cash with the purpose of delivering attractive long-term growth with less volatility than the currency markets and was chosen by Mark Dampier of Hargreaves Lansdown.