Those funds returned 17 percent a year, on average.

Those funds returned 18.8 percent, on average, for the five months.

But for the three years ended then, the fund returned 9.3 percent a year, on average, which is much closer to historical stock market returns.

This fund has returned about 7 percent a year, on average, over the last five years.

Over the last three years, floating-rate funds have returned 7.2 percent a year, on average.

Over the last three years through Thursday, it returned 9.93 percent a year, on average, about 1.6 percentage points better than its peers.

The gold price in Sterling meantime returned 13pc per year on average.

The fund returned 6.8 percent a year, on average, for the three years ended Thursday.

The fund returned 55 percent in 2005, and about 23 percent, on average, over the last five years.

A value approach in this group returned 11.3 percentage points more a year, on average, than a growth-oriented one.