A new screen hunting for super software stocks

Care to spend the next minute wallowing in regret and fruitless longing? Then just look at this chart.

Rewind the clock 14 years. If the data the Investors’ Chronicle has about its readers is broadly true, then odds are you were investing (or able to invest) then. Chances are that you thought ‘technology’ a reliable investment theme, too. Memories of the dotcom crash hadn’t disappeared, of course. But software and IT weren’t going away, and profits were getting stickier with each passing year.