LO Funds Emerging Market Bond Fundamental - Negative

FUND RESEARCH UPDATE: Fund reinstated to Negative.

Ruli Viljoen 30 July, 2013 | 9:34AM
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We are reinstating the LO Funds Emerging Market Bond Fundmental fund’s Morningstar Analyst Rating™ of Negative. It had been previously placed Under Review following a manager change. Holger Friedrich took over this fund in April 2013. Although he has experience running emerging-markets debt portfolios, we are disappointed by the team’s chronic instability, as Friedrich is the fifth manager to take over this fund over the past five years. Furthermore, the approach in place on this fund is still unproven. Since July 2012, the fund has been managed against an internal fundamentally weighted benchmark, which is biased toward smaller, less-liquid issuers. While it’s still too early to judge the effectiveness of this approach, the multiple management and strategy changes that this fund has witnessed over the years has been accompanied by material underperformance of the peer group.

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Ruli Viljoen

Ruli Viljoen  is Head of Manager Selection, Morningstar UK

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