+++ International bond mutual funds, with assets of $25 million or more, ranked by the total return in third quarter (Dollar amounts in millions) Rank Fund Name Bank 1 Evergreen Select Interntl Bond I First Union Corp. 2 Northern Instl Int'l Bond A Northern Trust Corp. 3 OFFITBANK Emerging Mkts Bond Sel Wachovia Corp. 4 Evergreen Strat Inc A First Union Corp. 5 Evergreen Strat Inc B First Union Corp. 6 Republic Fixed Income Fund Adv Republic New York Corp. 7 Northern Fixed Income Fund Northern Trust Corp. 8 J.P. Morgan Instl-Glbl Strat Inc J. P. Morgan & Co. 9 BlackRock-Intl Bond Inst PNC Bank Corp. 10 Comstock Partners Strategy O Mellon Bank Corp.
Average for the top 10 funds with $25 million or more in assets
Average for all 11 funds with $25 million or more in assets
Average for all 32 bank proprietary international bond funds
Non-bank International Bond Fund Averages
Salomon Brothers Non-U.S. Government Bonds part 2 of 3
Fund Assets Third Year Latest Rank Investment Objective 9/30/99 Qtr. to Date 1 Year* 1 Global Income $46.12 3.03% 1.08% 3.96% 2 Global Income 27.16 1.67 -6.68 -2.87 3 Emerging Market Income 141.3 1.01 8.11 24.07 4 Global Income 159.78 0.67 0.25 3.68 5 Global Income 122.6 0.49 -0.29 2.78 6 Global Income 113.08 0.37 -1.02 0.05 7 Global Income 297.03 0.14 -2.33 -2.61 8 Global Income 246.97 -0.08 -0.07 0.93 9 Global Income 59.52 -0.24 0.37 1.89 10 Global Income 41.54 -1.35 -12.57 -24.3
$125.51 0.57% -1.32% 0.76%
131.33 0.27 -1.56 0.19
50.27 0.76 -2.53 -1.07
0.58 4.75 12.7
6.06 -3.64 1.44 part 3 of 3
TOTAL RETURNS THROUGH 9/30/99 (%)
Latest Latest Latest Rank 3 Years*5 Years*10 Years* 1 5.24% 7.34% - 2 2.44 5.77 - 3 -0.42 5.48 - 4 5.59 6.05 7.31% 5 4.76 5.22 - 6 5.7 - - 7 5.99 7.27 - 8 - - - 9 8.55 10.53 - 10 -11.83 -7.24 -
2.89% 5.05% 7.31%
2.80 5.05 7.31
2.67 5.6 7.31
2.39 6.68 6.99
3.3 6.34 9.01 === Data source: The data was provided by Wiesenberger, a Thomson Financial Co. A proprietary fund is a mutual fund that was formed or founded by a bank and/or over which the bank exercises management discretion. Excluded are private-label funds and all other third-party funds that are sold through banks. (*) annualizes rate of return.
