Research

Are active bond managers simply 'warehousing' a portion of your fund’s assets?

This report analyses the performance of actively managed funds in the South African Bond market over the last 5 years.

The aim is to measure the degree of out-performance of the active funds and to estimate how much of this performance could have been achieved using passive strategies.

We find that the average bond fund out-performed the ALBI by about 80bps per annum (before fees) over the last five years (after accounting for market exposure, or "beta").

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