Top locate a particular fund and to view its factsheet your can use either the basic or advanced Fund Factsheet Search facility.

 

The advanced version of the search tool can be accessed via the basic search facility by clicking the blue 'advanced search' button (image below):

 

 

Advanced Search is divided into two main areas:

 

Top Section :

Select to include only those funds within the Barclays Stockbrokers Funds Market or all UK retail Unit Trusts and OEICs.

This choice is made by selecting one of the two radio buttons provided.

 

Bottom Section :

 

1. Fund Manager / IMA Sector

Narrow search by Fund Manager and / or IMA Sector.

Two drop down lists are provided where you can select a particular manager and / sector. Please note that buy selecting both a manager and a sector, you will probably narrow your results to just a few funds.

 

2. ISA Funds

Select to include 'all funds' or only those funds that are available as an ISA (Individual Savings Account)

 

3. Yield

Set a minimum yield % at last payment date

 

4. FE Crown Rating

Set a minimum crown rating - 1, 2,3,4 or 5 crowns

 

4. Fund Size

Either set a minimum fund size or search for fund sizes within a specific range

 

5. Performance

Set a minimum or maximum performance over one of three time periods

 

6. Initial Charge

Set a maximum or minimum initial charge

 

7. Annual Charge

Set a maximum or minimum Annual charge

 

8. Volatility

Set maximum or minimum % volatility or search for funds with % volatility within a specific range. Volatility relates to the changing price of a fund over a specific period - also know as risk

 

9. Information Ratio

This is the ratio of the Relative Annualised Average against the Tracking Error. The higher the ratio, the better, as it reflects the extent to which your fund has outperformed the benchmark.

 

10. Alpha

Alpha is a measure of expected return when the benchmark produces no movement. Alpha should be positive, and the higher the better.

 

11. Sharpe Ratio

Sharpe Ratio is a measure to access whether the relationship between a fund’s risk and its return is good or bad. Sharpe ratio should be positive, and the higher the better

 

12. Beta

Beta is the amount a fund is expected to gain or lose when the benchmark moves by one unit. It takes account of the relative risk of the fund as well as the correlation of movements between the fund and the benchmark.

 

13. Quartile Ranking

Quartile ranking indicates where a fund sits within it's parent sector in terms of performance over a given period. For example if a fund is the number 4 fund within a sector containing 100 funds it would sit within the top quartile (quartile 1).

 

14. R Squared

Rsquared measures the quality of the correlation between two series of data. It is the square of the correlation. One can measure the quality of the relationship between two investments, or an investment and its benchmark.

 

15. Order by

Select to order results by name, price, 1 year performance or Financial Express Crown Rating.

 

16. Number of results

Where you are likely to have a large number of results you can limit the results per page to 25, 50 or 100. You can also select to view all results within a single page.

 

Once you are happy to commence your search click the green 'search now' button (image below):

 

 

Results:

 

Results are displayed within a table in alphabetical order and consist of the following fields:

 

Fund Name:

Name of the fund - Links to a fund factsheet

 

Price:

Unit / Mid price of fund at last pricing point (normally last business day)

 

Links:

Two graphical links to i) a chart and ii) the fund factsheet

 

1 year:

Performance of the fund over the last 12 months

 

5 years:

Performance of the fund over the last 60 months

 

Rating:

FE Crown Rating - between three and zero crows

 

ISA?:

Fund available as and ISA (Individual Savings Account).

 

Deal:

Deal selected fund online -