The Standard Life Global Equity Unconstrained Fund has been removed from Hargreaves Lansdown's buy-list, the Wealth 150.

Meera Patel, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said the fund had been removed because it had 'struggled to perform consistently'.

She said, 'The last three years have been unprecedented for global stock markets and have seen the worst financial crisis since the 1930s.

'Along with many others, this fund suffered in the downturn, but bounced back strongly as the market rebounded in 2009. We were hopeful the fund’s recovery would continue but performance has once again been mixed this year.'

The fund's strategy was changed several years ago to put greater weight behind the manager's highest conviction ideas, which had initially led to good performance, she said.

The fund recently saw a change in manager after Lance Phillips stood down in July to concentrate on his role as head of global equities.

Patel said it would be monitoring the performance of replacement Mikhail Zverev.

'We still believe the fund’s approach has the potential to reward long-term investors, and would stress that this is not a recommendation to sell the fund,' she added. 'We feel that generally speaking existing investors should continue to hold the fund provided it still meets their objectives.'

Patel saidt would consider readmitting the fund to the Wealth 150 in the future.