The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency Limited
Press Release
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Rating Action
Lahore: (18-January-2007)
    PACRA Assigns Star Ratings to Balanced Mutual Funds Based on Performance During FY06
 

 

Analysts
Moin Khalid
(+92-42-586 9504)
moin@pacra.com

Maimoon Rasheed
(+92-42-586 9504)
maimoon@pacra.com

Usman Khizer
(+92-42-586 9504)
ukhizer@pacra.com

 

 

 







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Pakistan Credit Rating Agency Limited (PACRA) has completed its review of the performance of mutual funds, leading to assigning of star ratings to funds. The review included all balanced funds, which were fully operational during FY06. A balanced fund is a fund that carries a mix of interest-based and equity securities and invests at least around 30% of its net assets in equities at all times.

The star ratings measure the performance of the funds not only on the returns given by these funds over the period of analysis (12 months of FY06) but also the risk – measured by variability in return over monthly periods. The rating of a fund is comparable only to ratings of other funds in the same category. The following is a list of PACRA’s latest publicly disseminated star ratings of balanced funds:

 

FUND ASSET MANAGER
STAR RATING
1)- BSJS Balanced Fund Limited JS ABAMCO Limited
5-Star
2)- First Dawood Mutual Fund Dawood Capital Management Limited
4-Star
3)- Unit Trust of Pakistan JS ABAMCO Limited
5-Star

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The primary function of PACRA is to evaluate the capacity and willingness of an entity to honor its obligations. Our ratings reflect an independent, professional and impartial assessment of the risks associated with a particular instrument or an entity.

PACRA's comprehensive offerings include instrument and entity credit ratings, insurer financial strength ratings, fund ratings, asset manager ratings and real estate gradings.

PACRA's opinion is not a recommendation to purchase, sell or hold a security, in as much as it does not comment on the security's market price or suitability for a particular investor.