Best Mutual Funds Companies in the Philippines 2014

Looking for the best mutual fund companies in the Philippines? Do you want to know the performance of your chosen funds? Or maybe you are trying to search which mutual fund companies in the Philippines is the best, there are many mutual fund companies in the Philippines, but you don’t have to invest in these all companies, just choose the best, the well performing, and the most “convenient” in investing (including making an additional investments).

If you don’t want to make this performance as your criteria in selecting mutual fund companies, the PIFA mutual fund awardees, might help you to decide, the list of mutual fund awardees during the 8th Annual Awards Night of PIFA (2014) can be seen here.

Best Mutual Funds Companies in the Philippines 2014

Many of the investors or want-to-be mutual fund investors, are looking for the best opportunities on how to make their money grow instead of investing in direct stocks by themselves, that’s why they choose mutual fund investing, even though there are fees, sales load, annual fee etc., for me it is still good to invest in mutual funds because someone is investing my money for me, all I have to do is to put money in their funds, and the fund manager will do the investing. The fund managers of mutual funds are experts, therefore I shouldn’t have to worry about my money or the market situation.

The important thing about mutual fund investing is to “let the fund manager do the investing”, leave the job to the fund manager, it is not your job, your job is to add funds. Keep on investing in mutual funds whether you do it monthly (peso cost averaging) or lump sum investing. Just make additional investments, and let the time answer your doubt how mutual fund can grow your money in many years to come. See how much money you will have when you invest P2,500 monthly. Our articles at “future value of P2,500 per month”.

 Do you have any idea, what is a mutual fund?

As for all we know, a mutual fund is somewhat the simplest way to invest your hard earned money to a very well diversified portfolio. If you have a mutual fund, it just simply means you have additional “paper asset”, where in you invest money to make money. A “funds”, are the pooled money (pinagtipon-tipon na salapi) of the many investors and invest this funds in the stock market, bonds, or a combination of stocks and bonds and other assets.
A basic guide in investing in the Philippine mutual fund companies will help you how to do it by yourself.
When investing in mutual funds, you should set a goal (actually not just in investing in mutual funds), you should have a goal why do you want to invest, some goal to take into consideration are;
  • How much you are willing to invest?
  • When is your plan to redeem your funds?
  • Which mutual fund companies is the best for you/
  • Which mutual funds suit your investing needs? (equity funds, balanced, fixed etc)
  • What is the purpose of the money itself? (for retirement, kids education, a house, a grand vacation)
Here the performance of mutual fund companies in the Philippines as of August 1, 2014.
Source: Bloomberg

Best Mutual Funds Companies in the Philippines 2014

Performance of Equity Funds (Peso)
Equity Funds (Peso) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
Philam Strategic Growth Fund, Inc. 15.15% -0.52% 10.20% 18.75%
Philippine Stock Index Fund Corp. 18.72% 8.69% 17.05% 20.67%
Philequity Fund, Inc.
20.80%
11.28% 17.22% 23.82%
Sun Life Prosperity Phil. Equity Fund Inc. 12.09% 3.01% 11.91% 17.84%
First Metro Save and Learn Equity Fund, Inc. 11.60% 2.10% 11.32% 23.85%
Philequity PSE Index Fund Inc. 17.77% 10.77% 16.84% 21.09%
ATRKE Equity Opportunity Fund, Inc. 12.85% 5.26% 13.09% 19.74%
United Fund, Inc. 12.32% -3.50% 4.05% 8.60%
ATRKE Alpha Opportunity Fund, Inc. 16.78% 7.39% No Data No Data
ALFM Growth Fund 16.51% 7.49% 9.99% 17.77%
MAA Privilege Peso Fund -0.58% -3.32% -1.32% +0.90%
Performance of Equity Fund Dollar 
Equity Funds (Dollar) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
ATR Kim Eng Asia Plus Recovery Fund 6.29% 8.03%
  -2.19%
No Data
Performance of Exchange Traded Fund
Equity Funds (ETF) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
First Metro Philippine Equity Exchange Traded Fund, Inc. 17.49% No Data
  No Data
No Data
Performance of Peso Balanced Fund
Balanced Funds (Peso) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
Sun Life Prosperity Balanced Fund, Inc. 7.37% 0.43% 9.25% 13.51%
NCM Mutual Fund of the Phils., Inc. 11.14% -3.37% 7.28% No data
First Metro Save and Learn Balanced Fund 6.19% -1.49% 10.13% 21.34%
ATRKE Philippine Balanced Fund 7.48% 3.33% 11.66% 15.97%
Optima Balanced Fund 7.28% 2.37% 13.36% 15.73%
One Wealthy Nation Fund, Inc. 3.53% No Data No Data No Data
Performance of Balanced Fund (Dollar)
Balanced Funds (Peso) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
PAMI Asia Balanced Fund, Inc. 4.86% 4.65% 0.54% No Data
Sun Life Prosperity Inc. 0.65% 6.13% 6.30% 5.06%
Performance of Peso Bond Funds
Bond Funds (Peso) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
Philam Bond Fund 0.72% 4.94% 6.82% 6.32%
Sun Life Prosperity Bond Fund, Inc. 0.36% -3.64% 5.49% 5.71%
Philequity Peso Bond Fund, Inc. No Data Available No Data Available No Data Available No Data Available
Cocolife Fixed Income Fund 3.03% 5.19% 6.09% 8.85%
ALFM Peso Bond Fund 0.29% -0.81% 5.37% 5.59%
Ekklesia Mutual Fund, Inc. 0.02% -1.88% 7.34% 6.60%
Sun Life Prosperity GS Fund, Inc. -0.57% -4.57% 4.36% 5.61%
First Metro Save and Learn Fixed-Income Fund -2.10% -3.17% 12.37% 10.75%
Grepalife Bond Fund Corp. -0.86% -5.28% 4.60% No Data
Performance of Bond Funds(Foreign Currency)
Bond Funds (Foreign Currency) YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
Sun Life Prosperity Dollar Advantage Fund, Inc. 0.65% 6.13% 6.30% 5.06%
PAMI Global Bond Fund, Inc. 2.60% 2.40% -1.25% 0.89%
Philam Dollar Bond Fund, Inc. 5.19% 6.01% 2.03% 4.80%
Grepalife Dollar Bond Fund 4.42% 5.65% 5.69% 6.24%
Grepalife Fixed Income Fund -0.27% -6.57% 3.73% 4.72%
Philequity Dollar Income Fund, Inc. 4.44% 5.56% 4.14% 5.84%
MAA Privilege Dollar Fund -0.13% -2.61% -1.87% -0.32%
ALFM Dollar Bond Fund 4.31% 4.92% 3.61% 4.68%
ALFM Euro Bond Fund 3.31% 3.51% 4.36% 4.10%
ATR KimEng Total Return Bond Fund 2.70% 1.82% 0.98% No Data
Performance of Money Market Funds
Money Market Funds YTD
Gain (Loss)
1-Year
Gain (Loss)
3-Year
Gain (Loss)
5-Year
Gain (Loss)
Sun Life Prosperity Money Market Fund, Inc. No Data Available No Data Available No Data Available No Data Available
Philam Managed Income Fund, Inc. 0.06% 0.07% 1.38% 1.45%
First Metro Save and Learn Fixed-Income Fund -2.10% -3.17% 12.37% 10.75%
ALFM Money Market Fund No Data Available No Data Available No Data Available No Data Available

Note: These data are from Bloomberg.com, if you found errors, please contact us immediately. The author of InvestmentTotal.com is not anyhow endorsing/promoting any of these mutual fund companies and not liable for any loss if you invest your money in the companies listed above.

Be Financially Literate Today!
I would like to congratulate all mutual fund investors in the Philippines, keep investing and b financially free. Everyone deserve to become happy and rich. As a guide, please continue reading our mutual fund topics below;

  • How to invest money in mutual fund Philippines? A simple guide and instructions on how to do it yourself. This is easy to follow, there are list of Philippine Mutual Fund Companies addresses and how to make your initial investment in some particular MF companies.
  • Best Mutual Fund Equity 2013: Do you want to invest in the stock market indirectly? Well MF equity is the solution. Find out which is the best MF equity on 2013.

Money Quote and Saying for Today:

Money brings freedom, freedom to buy what you want , and freedom to do what you want with your time.-T Harv Eker

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