MPI Research Corner

Asia Pacific ex Japan equity funds’ performance ranges from -0.59% to 40.34% over the last 52 weeks (ending February 25, 2010), in USD terms. The best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the MSCI AC Asia Pacific ex Japan) by approximately 11.9% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 14.4%. What role [...]

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 [...]