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Article: Performance: European large cap equity - Fund performance overview - Better safe than sorry.
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- Financial Times Mandate
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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Byline: Spencer Anderson
Based on the results, it would appear that there are plenty of ways to outperform the large cap equity markets. While few funds managed to post gains over the three and one-year periods, some squeezed out small profits, and among these funds the strategies differed dramatically.
Yet even with the market upswing since March, it has still been a difficult and complicated 12 months to make money in equities. One fund manager, reading into the results said: "It's fair to say there is more than one way to skin a cat. But it's also fair to say that fund management is not easy. If you assume there is more than one way to outperform, ...