South African managers fail to beat inflation

Commenting on ABSA’s latest quarterly survey on the performance of fund managers in the year to March, ABSA Consultants and Actuaries' executive director Coenraad de Jager said: “When portfolios with a conservative mandate - portfolios mainly investing in fixed interest securities - are excluded, the ratio drops to one in four. ABSA's survey is based on the performance of 70 portfolios, representing funds in excess of R100bn.

Allan Gray Limited was rated as the number one performer over one, three, five and ten-year periods. The fund manager turned in a 36.4% investment yield over a one-year period to the end of March 2001. Allan Gray has R7.8bn worth of assets under management.

Second place went to Foord & Meintjies with a return of 23% over a one-year period. The portfolio has R265m worth of assets under management. Foord & Meintjies ranked best performer of the October 2000 survey.

In the key return-over-three-years category, Allan Gray also came out top with a 34.5% return. Runner-up was Foord & Meintjies, which produced a 31.7% return.

Allan Gray also showed the best investment yield achieved in the longer five and ten-year investment periods. They returned 22% over five years and 21.9% over ten years.

By Janet Du Chenne

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