Japan Equity

Japan equity funds’ performance ranges from -21.04% to 3.64% over the last 52 weeks (ending March 31, 2011), in JPY terms. The best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the Daiwa DSI-1 Total Index) by approximately 9.2% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 8.5%; however, both groups of funds’ cumulative performances […]

April 10, 2011

Japan equity funds’ performance ranges from -21.04% to 3.64% over the last 52 weeks (ending March 31, 2011), in JPY terms. The best 5% of the funds outperform the market (pegged to the Daiwa DSI-1 Total Index) by approximately 9.2% and the worst 5% underperform by approximately 8.5%; however, both groups of funds’ cumulative performances are negative during this period. Given that the effects of the March 11 earthquake on performance are included in this period, we decided to analyze how the top and bottom performers’ style allocations change after the events of March 11.

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