MPI Research Corner

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 [...]

Given the large number of North American Equity funds registered for sale in Europe, the analysis is divided into USD denominated funds and all other remaining funds. This month we examine USD funds and attempt to rank the managers’ performance based solely on their skills, thereby stripping away any beneficial or hurtful effect of currency [...]

Following our previous analysis of the Waddell & Reed fund we performed a similar analysis of a group of the largest equity funds with combined AUM over $500B. Average fund exposures are shown in chart below (bottom part) and contrasted with the Ivy Asset Strategy fund (top). The Ivy fund is not included in this [...]