MPI Research Corner

Bridgewater Pure Alpha II Fund, the flagship fund of Bridgewater Associates – the world’s largest alternative investment management firm – has generated outstanding returns in the last twenty years with especially impressive performance since the Fall of 2008. Using MPI’s new Factor Search™ application, MPI’s endeavor is to capture dynamic betas embedded in Bridgewater fund’s [...]

North America Equity USD denominated funds’ performances range from -54.91% to 13.04% over the last 52 weeks (ending December 2, 2011), in USD terms. On average, the best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the S&P 500 Index) by approximately 5.13% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 15.73%. We last analyzed [...]

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 [...]

Carmignac Patrimoine, the €24 billion flagship fund of French manager Carmignac Gestion, is back in the spotlight due to its good performance this summer. Despite the turbulence in European financial market, the fund rose 2.56% while its benchmark (50% MSCI AC World+50% Citi WGBI) lost -3.19% from June to August this year. Our cumulative return [...]

The investment seeks capital growth by investing in common stocks. The fund invests primarily in common stocks and seeks to invest in companies that appear to offer superior opportunities for growth of capital. It may also hold cash or money market instruments. The fund may invest up to 25% of its assets in securities of [...]