More hard times ahead for the battered venture capitalists
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Recent trends in the performance of venture capital funds, index funds and bond funds are discussed. Venture capital funds have been performing badly after several years of strong returns.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2001
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Why pay over the odds for an actively managed fund when you could buy an index tracker?
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It is becoming increasingly widely accepted that passively managed funds, which track a particular index, can bring much higher yields than those which are actively managed. Barclays Global Investors, for example, now has around $350 billion of investors' funds in passively managed funds, and is the leader of this sector in both the UK and the US. The shift towards passively managed funds is mainly the result of the introduction of performance measurement techniques which have increased awareness of the problem of underperforming actively managed funds.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1997
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Canny runners stay liquid
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Fund manager Ian Rushbrook, whose investment trust Personal Assets has been very successful, is pessimistic about the prospects for both the UK and the US stock markets. He believes that the markets are very overvalued, and he therefore has around 35% of his fund invested in cash or cash equivalents. He has also been purchasing oil stocks in order to adopt a defensive position. He plans to maintain liquidity at a high level, regarding protection of capital as being more important than short-term relative performance.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 1998
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