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Richard Ford
Morgan Stanley Invest Mgmt UK, Morgan Stanley Investment Fund
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Manager profile
Richard Ford, Executive Director, joined Morgan Stanley in 1991 and has 10 years of investment experience. He is a portfolio manager for the European Corporate Bond programme. Prior to his current role, Richard was a European Credit Trader. Prior to joining the Firm, he was a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young. Richard received a B.com from Edinburgh University in Business Studies and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
Total return for Richard Ford
Manager career performance
Rolling Alpha Quartile: Discrete three year periods
Rolling Alpha Quartile shows a manager's alpha score in quartile terms, plotting his or her risk adjusted performance against all other managers in the UT & OEICs universe. The best managers are those who are consistently ranked in the first or second quartile.
 
Quartile 1
Quartile 2
Quartile 3
Quartile 4
 
 
 
 
 
60-96m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
72-108m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
84-120m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
96-132m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
108-144m
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Discrete calendar year performance : Richard Ford

Manager career performance
Discrete performance
  0-12m 12-24m 24-36m 36-48m 48-60m 60-72m 72-84m 84-96m 96-108m 108-120m
Richard Ford 5.1 1.9 -10.5 -5.8 5.5 5.4 -0.2 -0.7 28.3 -4.2
Peer Group Composite 5.6 2.6 -9.8 -5.1 5.7 4.7 -0.2 -1.5 26.6 -3.3
Over / Under -0.5 -0.7 -0.7 -0.7 -0.2 0.7 0.0 0.8 1.7 -0.9
Performance vs peer group composite: Richard Ford
How a manager matches up against their peers gives you some idea of how talented they are. Very few managers perform equally well in rising and falling markets, so knowing which type of market a manager is capable of performing well within is also important.
 
Overall markets
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Outperformed peer group composite
3 years
out of a possible 10
 
Overall markets
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Underperformed peer group composite
7 years
out of a possible 10
 
Rising markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
2 years
out of a possible 5
 
Falling markets
UpDown
Outperformed peer group composite
1 year
out of a possible 5
Funds currently managed
Fund Sole/Co-managed Sector Periods
Morgan Stanley Sterling Corporate Bond Co-managed UT Sterling Corporate Bond since Oct 01 2008 to present
MS INVF Euro Corporate Bond Co-managed FO Fixed Int - EUR Corporate Bond since Oct 30 2008 to present
MS INVF Euro Bond Lead manager FO Fixed Int - EUR Investment Grade since Nov 30 2009 to present
MS INVF Euro Strategic Bond Lead manager FO Fixed Int - EUR Investment Grade since Nov 30 2009 to present
MS INVF Short Maturity Euro Bond Co-managed FO Fixed Int - EUR Short/ Medium Maturity since Nov 30 2009 to present
MS INVF Global Credit Co-managed (deputy) FO Fixed Int - Global since Nov 14 2012 to present
MS INVF European Fixed Income Opportunities Co-managed (deputy) FO Fixed Int - EUR since Sep 30 2014 to present
Morgan Stanley Global Fixed Income Opportunities Co-managed (deputy) FO Fixed Int - USD since Dec 01 2014 to present
MS INVF Global Bond Co-managed (deputy) FO Fixed Int - USD Investment Grade since Dec 01 2014 to present
Funds managed previously
Fund Periods
Morgan Stanley Sterling Corporate Bond since Dec 11 2000 to Sep 30 2008
MS INVF Euro Strategic Bond since Jan 01 2004 to Mar 31 2008
MS INVF Euro Corporate Bond since Jan 01 2004 to Mar 31 2008
MS INVF Global Premier Credit since Dec 03 2012 to fund close
MS INVF Euro Corporate Bond (ex Financials) since Dec 01 2014 to Dec 16 2013
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