Barclay Fund of Funds Index
The Barclay Fund of Funds Index is a measure of the average return of all FoFs in the Barclay database. The index is simply the arithmetic average of the net returns of all the FoFs that have reported that month.
The Barclay Fund of Funds Index is recalculated and updated real-time on this page as soon as the monthly returns for the underlying funds are recorded. The number of funds that are currently included in the calculations for the most recent months can be found in the footnotes below. Please note that the calculation for the number of funds is time-stamped and that the number of funds will continue to increase until all funds categorized within the sector have reported monthly returns.
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2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | |
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| Jan | -2.93% | 1.23% | 2.85% | 0.12% | 1.54% | |
| Feb | 1.27% | 0.74% | 0.41% | 1.35% | 1.09% | |
| Mar | -2.74% | 0.97% | 1.67% | -0.50% | 0.46% | |
| Apr | 0.97% | 1.61% | 1.62% | -1.46% | -0.71% | |
| May | 1.69%§ | 2.00% | -1.96% | 0.02% | -0.88% | |
| Jun | -0.60%† | 0.58% | -0.61% | 1.27% | 0.23% | |
| Jul | - | 0.29% | -0.17% | 1.66% | -0.46% | |
| Aug | - | -2.40% | 0.60% | 0.84% | -0.06% | |
| Sep | - | 1.95% | -0.20% | 1.62% | 0.86% | |
| Oct | - | 2.96% | 1.50% | -1.64% | 0.65% | |
| Nov | - | -1.63% | 1.67% | 1.50% | 2.31% | |
| Dec | - | 0.34% | 1.72% | 2.00% | 1.50% | |
| YTD | -2.42%* | 8.86% | 9.38% | 6.91% | 6.65% | |
| †Estimated performance for June 2008 calculated with reported data from 38 funds. | ||||||
| §Estimated performance for May 2008 calculated with reported data from 2386 funds. | ||||||
| *All estimates and 2008 YTD amounts are calculated with reported data as of July-3-2008 19:11 US CST. | ||||||