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On the front of Artio's pending sale to Aberdeen, both fixed income and international strategies have underperformed their respective indeces for prolonged periods, and significant outflow contributes to this sale of this once proud company. pionline.com/article/20130304/PRINTSUB/303049976 Rudolph-Riad and Richard Pell's International fund was one of the foreign fund choice in my 401(K). They were dropped and replaced with Vanguard Total International Index fund.
Reply to @Sven: I used to invest in Artio Global High Income fund for a while. They kept the bond fund management under Aberdeen. Hopefully, this transition will be better for them.
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On the front of Artio's pending sale to Aberdeen, both fixed income and international strategies have underperformed their respective indeces for prolonged periods, and significant outflow contributes to this sale of this once proud company.
pionline.com/article/20130304/PRINTSUB/303049976
Rudolph-Riad and Richard Pell's International fund was one of the foreign fund choice in my 401(K). They were dropped and replaced with Vanguard Total International Index fund.