LONDON, July 6 (Reuters) - British-domiciled funds had a
positive week to Friday July 3, led by products investing in
European small caps, data from Thomson Reuters research firm
Lipper showed on Monday.
European equities categories filled the next two spots,
followed by global emerging markets funds.
Funds investing in UK index linked gilts and Japanese
equities brought up the rear.
The table below lists weekly performance measured by Lipper
in categories as defined by the Investment Management
Association.
WEEK TO July 3
SECTOR RETURN(%)
IMA European Smaller Companies 2.38
IMA Europe Including UK 1.76
IMA Europe Excluding UK 1.75
IMA Global Emerging Markets 1.59
IMA North American Sm Companies 1.58
IMA Technology & Telecoms 1.18
IMA Japanese Smaller Companies 1.06
IMA Specialist 0.88
IMA Global Growth 0.83
IMA UK All Companies 0.79
IMA UK Zeros 0.72
IMA North America 0.71
IMA Pensions 0.67
IMA Balanced Managed 0.66
IMA UK Smaller Companies 0.65
IMA Global Bonds 0.61
IMA Active Managed 0.59
IMA £ High Yield 0.51
IMA Cautious Managed 0.48
IMA Asia Pacific Excluding Japan 0.42
IMA Unclassified 0.37
IMA Absolute Return 0.24
IMA Property 0.21
IMA UK Equity Income 0.18
IMA UK Equity & Bond Income 0.17
IMA Asia Pacific Including Japan 0.04
IMA Guaranteed/Protected 0.04
IMA Money Market 0.02
IMA UK Equity Income & Growth -0.04
IMA £ Strategic Bond -0.11
IMA £ Corporate Bond -0.29
IMA UK Gilt -0.60
IMA Japan -0.68
IMA UK Index Linked Gilt -0.68
Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company, is a fund research and
analysis organisation, providing independent insight on global
collective investment including mutual funds, retirement funds,
hedge funds, fund fees and fund expenses to the asset management
and media communities.
Lipper data covers 196,000 share classes and over 108,000
funds in 57 registered-for-sale universes. It provides the free
Lipper Leader ratings for mutual funds registered for sale in 27
countries. Additional information is available at
www.lipperweb.com.
(Compiled by Joel Dimmock; Editing by Raji Menon)
