Top 5: Ruffer leads Global Neutral Allocation Mix Funds
The neutral mixed fund portfolio consisting of 50 percent equities and 50 percent bonds remains popular despite year-to-date losses.
Top 5 High Yield bond funds: UBS in the lead
As expected, 2022 looks set to be a turbulent year for fixed income assets. High-yield bonds shared in the blows dealt in the first quarter.
Top 5 emerging markets debt, local currencies: Man GLG
The asset class is caught in a general bear market for bonds. The GBI-EM Global Diversified Index, the leading benchmark for emerging market bonds, continued its downward trend and closed the first quarter of 2022 with a loss of 4.4 percent measured in euros. In this difficult market, it is Man GLG that has been the best performer this year.
Top 5 inflation-linked: 'Inflation At Work' works best
During the brief period between the release of most Covid-19 measures and the start of the war in Ukraine, inflation was the order of the day. And although we currently live in a more complex and visibly less global world, inflation still seems to be the number one issue for financial markets.