BNY Mellon Sterling Bond Fund
As at 31 July 2010
Investment objective
The Sub-Fund aims to maximise total returns in respect of income and capital growth primarily (meaning at least 90% of the Sub-Fund's assets) through investment in pound sterling denominated bonds and other debt and debt-related securities denominated in sterling and in derivatives.
General information
- Total net assets (million)
- £ 7.50
- Lipper sector
- UK Offshore - Fixed Int-GBP
- Index
- FT-A Govt All Stocks
- Fund domicile
- Dublin
- Fund type
- ICVC
- Fund manager
- Paul Brain
- Alternate
- Howard Cunningham
- Base currency
- GBP
- Currencies available
- GBP, EUR
Key dates
- Fund launch
- 27 Feb 1987
- Close of financial year
- 31 Dec
BNY Mellon Asset Management Company
Newton Investment Management: Newton pursues a distinctive global thematic investment approach and provides added value from extensive proprietary research.
Dealing
09:00 to 17:00 each business day
Valuation point: 12:00 Dublin time
Shareclass EUR A
- General
- Share class launch date
- 02 Jan 2002
- Minimum investment
- € 5,000
- Annual management charge
- 1.00%
- Maximum initial charge
- 5.00%
- Codes
- ISIN
- IE0004153031
- Bloomberg
- MELSTAE ID
- Sedol
- 0415303
- Valoren
- CH1339183
- WKN
- 693945
- Registered for sale in:
- DE, NL, IT, GUE, PT, UK, FR, CH, NO, BE, JER, ES, TW, GIB, AT, IRL
Shareclass GBP A
- General
- Share class launch date
- 10 Dec 2001
- Minimum investment
- £ 5,000
- Annual management charge
- 1.00%
- Maximum initial charge
- 5.00%
- Codes
- ISIN
- IE0004153254
- Bloomberg
- MELSTA1 ID
- Sedol
- 0415325
- Valoren
- CH1339191
- WKN
- 798158
- Registered for sale in:
- DE, NL, GUE, UK, FR, CH, NO, JER, HK, TW, GIB, IRL, PT
Fund Specific Important Information
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Source: Lipper as at 31 July 2010. Total Return, including annual charges but excluding initial charges, income reinvested gross of tax. Performance history is given in Fund - GBP A share class currency. |
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| 1 month | 3 months | 6 months | YTD | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | 3 years | 5 years | |||
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Source: Lipper as at 31 July 2010. Total Return, including annual charges but excluding initial charges, income reinvested gross of tax. Performance history is given in share class currency. |
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| Fund - GBP A share class | -0.24 | 3.05 | 3.94 | 4.82 | 8.45 | 20.65 | 28.23 | 6.46 | 5.09 | ||
| FTSE A British Govt All Stocks | -0.24 | 3.56 | 4.68 | 5.43 | 7.27 | 24.51 | 29.38 | 7.58 | 5.28 | ||
| Sector average | 0.08 | 1.93 | 4.05 | 5.61 | 11.78 | 18.51 | 20.81 | 5.77 | 3.81 | ||
| Fund - EUR A share class | -2.28 | 7.13 | 7.67 | 11.58 | 10.76 | -2.65 | 5.71 | -0.89 | 1.12 | ||
| FTSE A British Govt All Stocks | -1.81 | 8.15 | 9.16 | 12.60 | 10.27 | 0.83 | 7.30 | 0.28 | 1.42 | ||
| Sector average | -1.50 | 6.45 | 8.50 | 12.80 | 14.90 | -4.03 | 0.19 | -1.41 | 0.00 | ||
| Ranking of fund in sector | 40 | 23 | 45 | 52 | 38 | 21 | 7 | 21 | 7 | ||
| No. of funds in sector | 72 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 70 | 55 | 48 | 55 | 48 | ||
| Quartile rank | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
Statutory performance data updated quarterly
| From | 30 Jun 09 | 30 Jun 08 | 29 Jun 07 | 30 Jun 06 | 30 Jun 05 |
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| To | 30 Jun 10 | 30 Jun 09 | 30 Jun 08 | 29 Jun 07 | 30 Jun 06 |
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Source: Lipper as at 31 July 2010. Total Return, including annual charges but excluding initial charges, income reinvested gross of tax. Performance history is given in Fund - GBP A share class currency. |
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| Fund | 8.0% | 9.6% | 3.1% | 4.6% | 0.1% |
Calendar Performance
| 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | |
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Source: Lipper as at 31 July 2010. Total Return, including annual charges but excluding initial charges, income reinvested gross of tax. Performance history is given in Fund - GBP A share class currency. |
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| Fund | 1.80 | 7.78 | 6.49 | 0.46 | 8.32 |
| Index | -1.16 | 12.81 | 5.27 | 0.69 | 7.93 |
| Quartile Rank | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Holdings and Risk
Portfolio holdings are subject to change at any time without notice, are for information purposes only and should not be construed as investment recommendations.
Historical fund statistics - 3 years
- Jensen alpha
- -0.03
- Beta
- 0.82
- Correlation to benchmark
- 0.90
- Annualised information ratio
- -0.38
- Annualised Sharpe ratio
- 0.50
- Annualised tracking error
- 2.80
- R²
- 0.81