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Which funds managed the market storm best?
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by Dylan Lobo on May 21, 2010 at 13:08
Recent volatility has left many big-name funds nursing losses.
You would be hard pressed to find a fund manager with a spring in his step over the last three weeks. Between 26 April and 12 May, fund managers across the board took a battering as the perfect storm of Greek debt contagion fears, the UK hung parliament and fears on inflation combined to send global stock markets tailspinning.
This week has seen more volatility after Germany introduced a ban on naked short selling and the world held its breath to as it parliament voted on the Greek bailout.
While 12 days is a relatively short period to judge a fund manager, the extreme volatility gives an interesting insight as to how funds were positioned. Some of the big names in the profession have struggled, while some relative unknowns and perennial underperformers have fared well.
So which funds managed to best preserve wealth between 26 April and 12 May?
Ruffer's cautious strategy prevails
In the Cautious Managed sector the average fund lost -2.44% over the 12 days, with only two funds – Robin Geffen’s Neptune Cautious Managed fund and the CF Ruffer Total Return fund run by Citywire AA-rated duo David Ballance (pictured) and Steve Russell – keeping their heads above water. In a recent interview with Citywire, Ballance said the Ruffer team’s biggest concerns were inflation and a bubble emerging in China.
He said: ‘The Chinese response to the credit crisis was huge public infrastructure spending. The authorities effectively issued a decree to banks to lend money, which resulted in massive credit creation. Our worry is that most of this money has gone into property speculation and industries where there is overcapacity.’
The two worst performing funds in the sector were run by big insurance houses – Jacqueline Kerr’s Standard Life Investments Dynamic Distribution and the Legal & General Distribution Trust , managed by Kevin Chessum, which returned -5.86% and -5.14% respectively.
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