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Over the years, investors are bombarded with buzzwords and investment fads. Distinguishing barbell investing from a top-down approach, the men in suits would have you believe, is essential to turning a profit. Wise investors, of course, mostly ignore this bunkum.

Yet occasionally, a concept is worth a fair hearing. Well, because it seems to work. Andrew Lapthorne, a well regarded analyst at Societe Generale, produced some recent analysis that was largely responsible for drumming up much of the recent interest in quality stocks. It concluded that a basket of these shares had delivered total returns that have averaged Should savers trust a fund with a risk score?

Why Britons are rightly rejecting stock market bonds. Three booming stock markets from the investment frontier. How to get 10pc returns a year. The 'dog' investment funds to dump. The returns versus the wider market have been even more impressive since Stock markets have gone nowhere, but on quality street, prices are two-and-a-half times higher. Definitions vary but at the broadest level, it is shares that have decent yields but also have the financial firepower under the bonnet to keep paying them.

The argument is also that companies paying high dividends deliver better returns — because the money is not squandered on acquisitions driven by a power-crazed boardroom but handed back to valued investors. This is a nine-point set of rules developed by the Stanford University professor Joseph Piotroski. Mr Lapthorne produced his own SG Quality Income Index for those in the Square Mile. But in the new age of DIY investors, we can all take advantage.

It recently launched one — the Quality Income Screen — based on the criteria set out by the SocGen strategy team. Over one year, it has risen nearly 35pc compared to a 15pc rise for the FTSE However, the pool of stocks that make the grade is shrinking. Ed Page Croft, the Stockopedia chief executive, told me: Now there are only What we all want to know is which UK stocks pass the test? But for Your Money readers, it has shared the full list.

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