Income fund bull run set to continue

Income products are currently enjoying a period of outperformance and past performance indicates that this is sustainable over the long term

This week's Conjecture focuses on income funds and whether their recent run of performance is sustainable. Present were Tineke Frikkee from Newton, Richard Dunbar from Scottish Widows Investment Partnership and John Stainsby from JPMorgan. Do you see the strong relative performance of income products as a trend that is likely to continue?' Tineke Frikkee (TF): Absolutely. If you look at annualised returns over the past 10 years, the equity income sector comes out at about 9.4% per year. If we put that in a longer historic context, there has been research done by the London Business Scho...