
Using the Lipper Leaders scoring system to analyse the best-performing funds in the IA Global sector. Global funds give investors exposure to a portfolio of equities, diversified… well, globally… but with a bias to developed markets such as Europe and North America. Over the past few years, however, many of these funds—and certainly the broad indices—have had a pronounced American accent. Given market conditions, that doesn’t seem to have hindered their popularity. If anything, it has strengthened it. On any given month, US equity funds vie with Global for the top slot in terms of investor popularity, although over