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Absolute Return (WAARX) from Western Asset Management is an actively managed, diversified fixed income portfolio. The portfolio construction is based on Western Asset's fundamental view of the fixed income markets and is independent of broad market benchmarks. Faced with lower returns and higher volatility, investors are increasingly seeking sources of return that are uncorrelated with broad market movements. One way to achieve this objective is through an "Absolute Return" strategy. Such a strategy uses long and short positions in securities and/or derivatives to generate superior performance regardless of whether public equity or fixed income markets rise or fall. Absolute Strategies Fund (ASFIX) The Aegis Value Fund
(AVALX) is a pure
no-load mutual fund focused on investing in small companies that trade at low
multiples of accounting book value, earnings, and cash flows. Alpine Real Estate Income and Growth (AIGYX) aims to provide comparatively high dividend income and capital appreciation with a low beta, from a diversified portfolio of REITs (real estate investment trusts) and other real estate securities. Its focus is on income growth, seeking a conservative mix of undervalued situations and growth opportunities. Analytic Investors Analytic Defensive Equity Fund seeks to obtain a greater long-term total return and smaller fluctuations in quarterly total return from a diversified, hedged common stock portfolio than would be realized from the same portfolio unhedged. Analytic Investors Global Long/Short Fund (ANGLX) and U.S. Long/Short Fund (OBDEX) seek to outperform their respective benchmarks by owning positions they consider likely to outperform the market while simultaneously selling short those positions they think will underperform the market. The Arbitrage Fund (ARBNX) seeks to achieve capital growth by engaging primarily in merger and acquisition risk arbitrage. The Fund may also invest in corporate reorganizations involving publicly announced tender offers, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, and liquidations. Artisan Small Cap Fund pursues long-term capital growth through a diversified portfolio of small, under followed growth companies. Auxier Focus Fund invests primarily in a portfolio of common stocks that the Fund’s investment advisor, Auxier Asset Management LLC believes offer growth opportunities at a reasonable price. The CALAMOS Growth Fund targets securities of companies that offer above-average potential for earnings growth. In pursuing its objective, the Fund seeks out securities of all market capitalizations and sectors that, in the investment advisor’s opinion, offer the best potential for relatively high, long-term growth rates that are sustainable over time. Throughout the process, risk control measures are applied at the security, sector and portfolio level to help achieve the proper balance between risk and reward. Calvert Income (CINCX) seeks to maximize long-term income, to the extent consistent with prudent investment management and preservation of capital, through investment in bonds and other income-producing securities. Fund is subject to issuer default risk and interest rate risk. The fund is non-diversified and may be more volatile than a diversified fund.
Century Small Cap
Select Institutional is a no-load mutual fund that seeks long-term growth of
capital by investing in a diversified portfolio of common and preferred stocks,
and securities convertible into common stock, of smaller companies. Clipper Fund, Inc. (CFIMX) is a no-load equity mutual fund with a long-term investment horizon. The Fund is advised by Davis Selected Advisers, L.P., which seeks to invest in durable, well-managed businesses that can be purchased at value prices and held for the long-term. The Fund is a non-diversified, open-end management investment company. The objective of the Fund is to provide long-term capital growth and capital preservation. The Davis family, directors, and employees have more than $2 billion of their own money invested side by side with shareholders in the various mutual funds managed by the firm. This helps ensure that the managers' interests are closely aligned with those of clients. Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) only distributes its funds through a relatively few, select, fee-only financial advisors. Financial Counselors of Virginia is proud to have been selected as one of those few advisors. DFA's core belief is that markets are "efficient." Dimensional distinguishes itself by applying this philosophy to its entire range of investments. The efficient markets hypothesis holds that markets are full of people trying to make a profit by predicting the future values of securities based on freely available information. Many intelligent participants compete to trade at a profit. The price they strike in trading a stock is the consensus of their opinions about the stock's value. Since the price is the same for everyone, so is the value. The price the market strikes is therefore based on all the available information about a stock, everything the investors know that has happened in the past and everything they predict will happen in the future. In this sense, markets assemble and evaluate information so effectively that the price of a stock is usually our best estimate of its intrinsic value. Prices are not always perfectly correct, nor is that a condition for market efficiency. The consensus view of investors can temporarily result in prices well above or well below a stock's intrinsic value. The only condition efficient markets require is that a disproportionate number of market participants do not consistently profit over other participants. Since "mispricings" tend to occur in both directions and since managers seem to over- and under perform with random frequency when adjusted for risk and costs, markets seem to be efficient. Founded January 4, 1965, Dodge & Cox Stock Fund seeks long-term growth of principal and income. The Fund invests primarily in a broadly diversified portfolio of common stocks. In selecting investments, the Fund invests in companies that, in Dodge & Cox’s opinion, appear to be temporarily undervalued by the stock market but have a favorable outlook for long-term growth. The Fund has low expenses, is a No-Load Fund, and has no 12b-1 plan charges. AXA Enterprise Mergers and Acquisitions Fund (EMAAX) specializes in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) invests in companies that are the subject of a deal, such as a merger, takeover or buyout. When these deals are announced, there is an opportunity for "merger arbitrage," the act of investing in a merger or acquisition target and holding the stock until the deal closes. This strategy aims to capitalize on the spread between the price of the targeted company following the announcement and the deal price upon closing. Evergreen Adjustable Rate Fund seeks to provide a relatively stable net asset value per share by investing primarily in adjustable rate securities, whose interest rates are periodically reset when market rates change. The average dollar-weighted reset period of adjustable rate securities held by the Fund will not exceed one year. Normally, the Fund invests at least 80% of its assets in securities that have interest rates that reset at periodic intervals. The Fund may also invest up to 20% of its assets in obligations that pay fixed interest rates. For temporary defensive purposes, the Fund may invest up to 100% of its assets in such obligations. Under normal market conditions, the Fund expects that it will invest substantially all of its assets in mortgage-backed securities (including collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs)) and asset-backed securities. Fairholme Capital Management, L.L.C. attempts to achieve the Fairholme Fund’s investment objective of long-term growth of capital by normally investing at least 75% of the Fund’s total assets in U.S. common stocks without regard to market capitalization and normally holding a focused portfolio of no more than 25 stocks. The Fund also intends to invest in "special situations" to achieve its objective. A special situation arises when, in the opinion of the Adviser, securities of a company will, within a reasonably estimated time, appreciate in value due to developments particularly or uniquely applicable to that company without regard to general business conditions or movements of the market as a whole. FBR Focus Fund (FBRVX) formerly named Small Cap Fund, is an open end no-load mutual fund, seeking long-term capital appreciation. This is a non-diversified fund, allowing the manager to invest a greater percentage of assets in a particular issue. The Fund focuses on companies believed to be undervalued, with proven management and excellent prospects for compounding their Intrinsic value at high rates of return. The portfolio manager believes that his portfolios are characterized by a low level of business risk, and reflect an approach that is inherently conservative. First Eagle Gold Fund (FEGIX) will invest primarily in securities of companies engaged in mining, processing, dealing in or holding gold or other precious metals such as silver, platinum and palladium, both in the United States and in foreign countries.
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Eagle SOGEN Overseas Fund (SGOIX) seeks long-term growth of capital through
investments primarily in equities issued by non-U. S. corporations. Management's
research-driven process seeks to minimize risk by focusing on undervalued
securities. Holdings consist mainly of stocks that trade in established foreign
markets, but can include assets from developing countries. The Fund is widely
diversified and has exhibited lower volatility than most other foreign funds. The investment objective of the Gateway Fund is to capture the majority of the higher returns associated with equity market investments, while exposing investors to significantly less risk than other equity investments. The Fund owns a broadly diversified portfolio of common stocks and sells index call options. Selling index call options reduces the Fund’s volatility, provides a steady cash flow and is the Fund’s primary source of return. The Fund also buys index put options that can protect the Fund from a significant market decline over a short period of time. The value of a put option generally increases as stock prices decrease. The combination of the diversified stock portfolio, the steady cash flow from the sale of index call options and the downside protection from index put options is designed to provide the Fund with fairly consistent returns over a wide range of fixed income and equity market environments. Hussman Strategic Growth Fund invests primarily in U.S. stocks, with the objective of long-term capital appreciation, and places added emphasis on defending capital during unfavorable market conditions. The Fund’s portfolio will typically be fully invested in common stocks favored by Hussman Econometrics Advisors, Inc., the Fund’s investment manager, except for modest cash balances that arise due to the day-to-day management of the portfolio. When market conditions are unfavorable in the view of the investment manager, the Fund may use options and index futures to reduce its exposure to market fluctuations. When conditions are viewed as favorable, the Fund may use options to increase its investment exposure to the market. |
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