Revealed: The best-selling fund groups of 2011

Investors' move into bond funds in the final quarter of 2011 helped M&G retain its position as the UK's top seller of funds to retail investors, according to the latest Fundscape Pridham Report. The quarterly report revealed M&G was 2011's largest selling fund group on both a gross and a net basis, and one of a few to see net retail sales increase in the fourth quarter. Many of the other 2011 winners benefited from their ability to leverage off wider distribution networks: Santander, HSBC and Lloyds Banking Group's Scottish Widows and SWIP all feature in the top ten, as well as insure...