Experience pays. On their rock, British managers, who have a long tradition of investment in shares, are more adept in Europe when it comes to invest in this asset class. It is one of the lessons of the English Edition the "Alpha League Table", established by Fininfo group EuroPerformance and Edhec.
On average, the British market has the highest proportion of rated equity funds (43.4) and the latter generate alpha (box read) the harder (2.95) on the five main European countries (see illustration). Preempted by the Spain, the France is third, elbow-to-elbow with the Switzerland, fourth. The Italy is on the other hand behind.

The 900 funds analyzed on the British market, a little less than half (43.4) generate the alpha of a persistent and meaningful way. Among them, the funds invested into the British actions are dominant, with 26.5 funds rated 4 and 5 stars, the international equity Fund (16.4) and funds American (13.8). Europe came in fourth place with 9.4 of the top performing funds.
Two subsidiaries of AXA in Top 10
Without surprise, this area of investment was never really a priority for British institutions, the difference of their counterparts from "continent", and the average alpha released by best funds invested on the old Continent, especially on small medium-sized companies, is 3.2. It is more important for the funds invested abroad (3.5), industries (4.8) and Asia (4.9), lowest for those invested into the British actions (around 2.5). The most successful emerging funds are especially those betting on the values of growth or style "growth".
Subsidiary management companies of the insurers, which some in the first places, which emit the stronger alpha, 3.62, to independent asset managers (3.22), then subsidiaries of banking groups (2.61) found in the second part of the classification.
Acquired by the Group AXA in 2005, the Corporation British Framlington is the most powerful of the English edition of the "Alpha League Table". With nearly two-thirds of its funds rated 4 and 5 stars, to an average alpha of 7.09, this Manager is performing on many classes of assets and styles: American values of growth, markets emerging financial sector... It is on the sectoral funds of AXA Framlington generated alpha is the stronger.
The Group AXA place another of its subsidiaries specialized in leading the Pack. It is AXA Rosenberg quantitative Manager, in sixth place.
In the second position sometimes M & G Group owned by Prudential. 62 of its funds, 13, score top marks, half on the UK shares, for an average 4.5 alpha. But the stronger alpha, 11.6, is generated by its international fund invested in basic industries.
The third place is a Scottish origin management company Aberdeen Asset Management, which nearly two thirds of the actions Fund studied arrive at generating alpha in a significant way, 2.78 on average.
Independent management companies, for some of the stores considerably raised, occupy most of the following places. This is the case of Artemis (4th), Taube Hodson Stonex (5th), Rensburg Sheppards (8th) or even Investec AM (9th).
Wrongly classified banking subsidiaries
The giant Fidelity International is that twentieth and twenty-third Henderson. Managers who belong to banking institutions are rather concentrated in the second part of the top.
An exception however, Old Mutual Asset Managers, the subsidiary of a South African financial group that gets ranked seventh. Despite its difficulties, Jupiter AM, the Commerzbank group, is 12th. A few asset managers of large as HSBC Asset Management, JPMorgan Asset Management or Goldman Sachs Asset Management evolve around the thirtieth place.