Credit/Fixed Income

US Manager Universe Statistics: Fourth Quarter 2017

This chart book presents representative long-only and hedge fund manager performance for fourth quarter 2017. The median US Growth Equity ex Small-Cap manager posted the highest median return for fourth quarter 2017, returning 6.8%. Emerging & Frontier Markets Equity managers posted the best returns for the one-year period ending December 31, 2017, with a median return of 36.8%. The median US Intermediate-Term Bonds manager posted the lowest median return for fourth quarter 2017 (0.0%), while the median Cash Management return was lowest for the one-year period ending December 31, 2017 (1.1%).

US Manager Universe Statistics: Third Quarter 2017

This chart book presents representative long-only and hedge fund manager performance for third quarter 2017. The median Global ex US Small-Cap Equity manager posted the highest median return for both third quarter 2017 and the one-year period ending September 30, 2017, returning 8.6% and 23.6% for the respective periods. The median Cash Management manager posted the lowest median return for third quarter 2017 (0.3%), while the US REITs median return was lowest for the one-year period ending September 30, 2017 (0.4%).

US Manager Universe Statistics: Second Quarter 2017

This chart book presents representative long-only and hedge fund manager performance for second quarter 2017. The median Global ex US Small-Cap manager posted the highest return for the quarter (8.9%), while the median Emerging and Frontier Markets manager posted the highest return for the trailing one-year period (24.0%). The median Cash Management manager posted the lowest return for the quarter (0.3%); for the trailing one-year period, the median Global ex US Bonds manager posted the lowest return (-0.6%).