Artisan Partners, an investment management company, released its “Artisan Small Cap Fund” first quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Equity markets surged at the beginning of 2024 in anticipation of the US economy entering a “goldilocks” scenario – a soft landing combined with decreasing inflation, potentially leading to […]
It s been difficult for actively managed U.S. and international-equity funds to beat their benchmarks. According to Morningstar s Active/Passive Barometer, only 48% of active U.S. stock funds survived and outperformed their average passive peer over the 12-month period ended June 2019, and only 23% of all active funds beat their passive benchmark over a 10-year period. As Morningstar director of global ETF research Ben Johnson notes in the report, foreign-stock and bond funds tend to have higher long-term success rates, while U.S. large-cap funds report the lowest success rates.
To identify funds that not only beat their benchmark but hit it out of the park, we looked for U.S. and international-equity funds that outperformed their benchmarks over the five- and 10-year periods ended in December 2020. Funds had to have a 10-year history and current assets under management of at least $100 million.