The two funds my family bought in Standard Chartered Bank:-
For the two funds that you bought...
1. Barclays Investment Legends.... really bad fund... why keep so long time.. ~~
2. Lyxor Agriculture Fund - performance quite good compare to same sector..
I guess you invest in both funds just before the financial crisis. Fund 1 has 40% in commodity and fund 2 has 100% in commodity..
The commodity sector is poor for years after the crisis.
The fund charge (1-2%) is for the operating of the fund. Most people thought that fund manager are Investment Adviser, but they are not. They are only operators, who buy and sell the asset according to the fund documents.
The investment adviser is those in investment bank. They manage the asset for you and share your profit (like 30-50%). They can invest in any products and their charge is linked with their ability.
As we do not have an adviser, we need to review the investments ourselves and take appropriate actions. Fund is only a media for investment, similar to stock, bonds, fixed deposit. We should balance the portfolio and review periodically.
The two funds my family bought in Standard Chartered Bank:-
1. Barclays Investment Legends Fund
2. Lyxor Agriculture Fund
The fund managers still charge 1.5% from clients (including me) for his bad management fee - very funny /ridiculous! In business world, we talk about cost-effective, level of performance, flexibility and employee's ability. But, these fund managers with that ability can receive our money (management fee) for his underperformance. Using Donald Trump's scale, they should have been fired!
have you compared the performance of the same sector of the funds??
if u invest a China stock fund, you cannot complain that the performance is worse than the hk stock market... the fund manager cannot change the fund structure, they can only minimise the lost in down trend and maximise the gain in up trend...
Fund managers are supposed to be a professional having expertise in managing the investment profolio reasonably well and capability in handing downturning market. But, many of them seem underperforming even compared to a layman like me.
My family bought two funds in Standard Chartered in year 2007/2008. Up to now, these two funds still record 20% lost. But, within the same period, my own investment in HK stock market has about +9% growth. So, you can imagine how well these fund managers have done their job!?