Aegon Japan posts consistent returns

Only one of the 67 funds in the Japan sector ' Deutsche Japan Growth ' managed to make positive returns over the past three years and even then investors would have seen less than a 1% return on their investment. The Deutsche fund made a return of 0.59% over the 36 months, which substantially outperforms the average loss of -20.61% in the sector over the same period. However, almost all of Deutsche Japan Growth's outperformance was achieved over the discrete year from July 1999 to June 2000, when the fund returned 63.36%, compared to the sector average of 43.19%. That year marked th...