MPI Research Corner

Please click on the enclosed video for a quick, step-by-step analysis of American Funds Growth Fund of America. Please check our blog and research area in the near future for a longer-term quantitative analysis of this fund with associated .pdf reports.

Equity Emerging Markets Global funds’ performances range from -43.56% to 7.49% over the last 52 weeks (ending October 28, 2011), in EUR terms. On average, the best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index) by approximately 7.95% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 14.04%. We last analyzed [...]

by Daniel Li and Alexandre Dussaucy By the end of September, John Paulson’s two flagship funds, the Paulson Advantage and the leveraged Advantage Plus fund, have lost 32% and 45%, respectively, for the year. As these losses loom large, many analyses and commentaries are trying to explain what went wrong. These reports, such as the [...]

An October 15th WSJ article, “When ‘Focused’ Funds Falter”, finds many prominent stock-picker funds among some of the worst performing this year. Of such funds, Fairholme Fund (-27.6% YTD through Oct 13), a subject of one of our previous blog posts, is one of the most notable – along with Bill Miller’s Legg Mason Opportunity [...]

Bruce Berkowitz’s fund has gotten a lot of media attention lately. Investors point to significant financial sector exposure and investments in AIG, BofA, Citi and St. Joe stock in particular as a drag on the fund’s 2011 results. While admitting on the conference call that the fund’s performance this year was “horrible” and the health [...]