Morningstar Canada Reports Third-Quarter 2009 Institutional Pooled Fund
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Pooled funds that focus on smaller Canadian companies did particularly well in the third quarter. The Canadian Small/Mid Cap Equity and Canadian Focused Small/Mid Cap Equity pooled fund indices ranked second and third overall, respectively, with gains of 19.1% and 17.3%. Of the 49 pooled funds that comprise these two categories, 48 posted double-digit gains for the quarter. The best performer with a 25.6% gain was Manulife Canadian Small Cap Equity, followed by Howson Tattersall Canadian Small Cap Value Equity, up 25.2%. Both of these funds are managed by Howson Tattersall Investment Counsel Ltd. and have very similar portfolios. The only fund in these categories to return less than 10% was PH&N Vintage, up 9.8%.
Two other fund indices that track sector-specific categories round out the top five: Real Estate Equity finished fourth with a 16.3% return, followed closely by Precious Metals Equity and its 16.2% gain. It is worth noting, however, that the three top-performing sector-specific categories each contain five funds or fewer.
The fund index that tracks the Canadian Equity category - the largest among all equity pooled fund categories in terms of both number of funds and assets under management - gained 10.1% in the third quarter. Returns among the 141 funds in that category ranged from 7.4% for both Burgundy Focus Canadian Equity and Guardian Canadian Equity, to 21.7% for Montrusco Bolton Quantitative Canadian Equity.
Among the three largest foreign equity categories, the International Equity pooled fund index gained 15.3% for the quarter, ranking 13th overall, while Global Equity returned 10.6% (ranking 19th), and U.S. Equity was up 6.7% (ranking 30th). The best-performing individual foreign fund was PH&N Currency-Hedged Overseas Equity, up 19.3%, while at the bottom the only equity fund in the red was Fidelity
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