Investment performance has improved, even if "second quartile" is not the best boast.
Only Mr Bolton's fund, Special Situations, has managed to stay in first or second quartile across all time periods, indicating just how important he has been to the group as a whole.
Things are a bit better in the second quartile, where real returns average 1.5%, where third quartile returns were flat.The clear winner was the fourth quartile, the period when yields were most inverted (short rates were higher than long).
Quartiles divide the data values into four parts; the first quartile is the 25th percentile, the second quartile is the 50th percentile (also the median), and the third quartile is the 75th percentile.
The second quartile (Q2), otherwise known as the median, divides observations into 50 50 % proportion.
Carrefour was usually located in the second quartile, and Condis was most often located in the third quartile.
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For example, Mid-Cap Growth lands in the second quartile for annual returns almost as often as the first.
These features are {maximum value (Max), minimum value (Min), mean value, median value, mode, first quartile (Xq1), second quartile (Xq2), range value and standard deviation (Std)}.
For each metric, the table shows the first quartile (25%%), the second quartile or median (50%%), and the third quartile (75%%).
This means that 25% of observations are smaller than the first quartile, 50% are smaller than the second quartile, and 75% are smaller than the third quartile.
