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Although the value of these funds initially rose rapidly, they later dive, virtually wiping out the savings of those who have invested in their. Advance fast than a decade, and many of these PHARE funds will still fail show a profit.

Those who have invested the sum of ￡ 1,000 to Axa Framlington Global Technology in November 2000 have now only ￡ 512.95.Isn't the worst performer is: Henderson Global Technology has transformed your ￡ 1,000 to ￡ 406.48, while ￡ 1,000 global technological support of the Invesco funds is now a fair value ￡ 224.96, according to Morningstar, the same 10 year period fonds.Dans analyst someone invest ￡ 1,000 for the FTSE all share would now be sitting on a fund worth ￡ 1,329.12.

Most funds in the area of technologies that were around for a decade before actually reduced by half your money: a return that may seem fairly in conformity to the way in which this technology has transformed our lives in this period.

Whether websites such as Google, Facebook or Twitter, companies such as Amazon or the rise of companies like Apple, online with its now ubiquitous iPods and so, it seems difficult to understand why fund managers can't make money technology.

Of course, the answer is that many have simply not in this period of 10 years. At the beginning of the Decade, evaluation many companies on the internet like little good fundamentals of old-fashioned, like how much money they made, how it has advantage and if they had the possibility to protect and grow their revenue sources.

If you look at shorter times, when there was more realistic about how these companies are priced, the situation is rose.

To a three to five years, mean Technology Fund has outperformed the part of all FTSE.

AXA Framlington Global Technology is the best in its sector in three to five years (and second last year). Anyone with ￡ 1,000 in 2005 - when most people touch technology - funding is now sitting on ￡ 1,630.65, significantly more than the ￡ 1,313.30 you would have obtained to invest in the share of all. Over three years, the Fund has increased 1,228.84 ￡ - both when FTSE All-Share actually lost money.

This positive trend will continue?Many people think that it will be.Darius McDermott noted, Chelsea financial services, Technology Fund are today very different beasts that they were 10 years ago. ""At the time you have been speculating on fact suggests,", he said.

"Most people companies invested in were not even built; they were still revenue development and systems."Of the bursting of the dotcom bubble some themselves are undertaken without ever making a penny.?

However, he said, today's technology companies tend to be established cash generative business. ""Watching them Apple .c ' is a global brand with $45bn silver sitting on his bilan.Autres brands like Google and Microsoft dominate their markets and highly profitable businesses," he said.

For three years, he said average Technology Fund was increased by 16 7pc; compared to the 2 just on 2pc market global growth, which he said was a reasonable criterion, given the global nature of the Technology Fund.

Philippa Philippa Wealth Management Gee Gee said she expected much that IT companies continue to as well as the economy moves from a recession.

"Firms postponed investments in it for a year or two now need to start updating systems; and many companies have deleveraged in recession now have cash on their balance sheets, are therefore in a position to do so," she says.

Mick Gilligan Killik & co securities brokers said: "technology is an area very cyclique.Cependant equilibrium solid sheets and diverse flows of income for a number of American big-cap names left unable to lead the consolidation in the industry, reducing competition and increase profit margins."

One of its funds preferred is polar Capital Trust technology: "while the majority of the funds are invested in stocks based on the United States, invested in UK stocks such as the ARM Holdings and autonomy and the technology of imagination."

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