Top-quartile just 8.2%

Only 20 (8.2%) of the 244 funds in the UK All Companies sector have been first or second quartile over the past three consecutive calendar years, and only three have been first quartile in each period, according to Standard & Poor's. The three funds that managed first-quartile performance over each of the three discrete years were Artemis UK Growth, Jupiter UK Growth Exempt and St James's Place UK & General Programme. Over three years to 1 June 2001, Artemis UK Growth returned 74.11% on a bid to bid basis, against the mean 10.04%. Over one year to June 2001, it returned 3.64% against t...