MPI Research Corner

Bond Global funds’ performances range from -8.83% to 42.73% over the last 52 weeks (ending July 29, 2011), in EUR terms. On average, the best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the Barclays Capital Global Aggregate Bond Total Return Index) by approximately 11.60% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 3.88%. The [...]

Emerging Markets Global Bond funds’ performances range from -11.25% to 15% over the last 52 weeks (ending July 1, 2011), in EUR terms. On average, the best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the JP Morgan EMBI Global Diversified Index) by approximately 15.08% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 6.26%. The [...]

USA Bond funds’ performance ranges from -1.27% to 31.36% over the last 52 weeks (ending May 27, 2011), in USD terms. On average, the best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Total Return Index) by approximately 7.92% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 5.03%. The [...]

Eurozone Bond [1] funds’ performance ranges from -8.11% to 3.23% over the last 52 weeks (ending April 29, 2011), in EUR terms. On average, the best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the Markit iBoxx Euro Sovereigns Eurozone Index) by approximately 2.8% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 2.9%. During this [...]

Japan equity funds’ performance ranges from -21.04% to 3.64% over the last 52 weeks (ending March 31, 2011), in JPY terms. The best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the Daiwa DSI-1 Total Index) by approximately 9.2% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 8.5%; however, both groups of funds’ cumulative performances [...]