IMA action leaves just two funds of funds in its UK Equity Income Sector
Action by the IMA to remove 15 funds from the IMA UK Equity Income sector that persistently failed to achieve the sector yield target of 110% of the yield of the FTSE All Share Index, leaves just two UK Equity Income funds of funds in the sector, says T. Bailey.
Three funds of funds – the Credit Suisse MM UK Income, the IFSL Lawrence House UK Equity and the Fidelity MultiManager Equity Income Portfolio funds – have all been relegated to the new UK Equity Income and Growth Sector.
T. Bailey CEO Jason Britton says that leaves just the T. Bailey Equity Income Fund (which yielded 139% of the FTSE All-Share index (as at 31 December 2008)*) and the Hargreaves Lansdowne (HL) Multi-Manager Income and Growth Portfolio.
Britton commented: “It means that those investors looking for the benefits of the fund of funds model in this sector and who wish to have an above market yield have a clearer choice.”
He reiterated his objection to the launch of the new IMA Equity Income and Growth Sector.
He said: "This new IMA Equity Income and Growth sector offers a home to funds with yields of as little as 90% of the yield of the FTSE All-Share. We're in the middle of bear market where yield is going to become increasingly attractive to investors, but a large proportion of the funds claiming to have an income objective will really have no such thing.
“Our belief has long been that funds that consistently missed the UK Equity Income Sector yield targets weren't really trying, so moving into an Income and Growth Sector where they claim to have an income focus, but can actually deliver less than the average yield of the FTSE All-Share in our view is misleading to investors."
* As at 31 December 2008 the T. Bailey Equity Income Fund yielded 139% of the yield of the FTSE All-Share Index – a yield of 6.22% against the FTSE All-Share Index’s 4.49%
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