The type of fund or style you desire might not be found within the fund family.
Large-cap HighMark most closely resembles Marker's fund in style.
In the meantime, Trinsum has shelved a plan to create a private-equity-style fund because of the chaos in financial markets.
So far that has included a call by state legislators to ban Moore-style fund-raising, claims from the state employees' association that the story raised "troubling questions" and editorials in North Carolina's two largest newspapers calling for Moore to stop taking money from fund managers.
The mid-cap value style ranks tenth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report.
The large-cap growth style ranks fourth out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report.
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The large-cap value style ranks second out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report.
The large-cap blend style ranks first out of the twelve fund styles as detailed in my Style Rankings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report.
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However, the SNP government is talking rather less about a Norwegian-style oil fund these days.
Meanwhile Labour have raised doubts about the SNP's plans for a Norwegian style oil fund in an independent Scotland.
It also means a Scottish government working with these figures would struggle to put much North Sea revenue aside for a Norway-style trust fund.
But, no, there has been no change in either the management, the mandate, or the investment style of the fund.
Although Centaurus, which is run by former traders from BNP Paribas, the country's largest bank by assets, is reasonably well-regarded, Pardus, a foreign fund known for its abrasive style, is viewed with suspicion.
Biggest holdings are Exxon Mobil, Apple and General Electric.) By contrast, mutual fund purchases are controlled by managers who should follow a specific style, like investing in tech stocks or fat dividends. (Example: Yacktman Fund (YACKX) .
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We saw the introduction of the microprocessor, personal computers, spreadsheets, word processing and West Coast style venture capital firms to fund them.
There is always debate among investors as to whether style investing using index funds or a style-based asset class fund is an active management strategy or a passive one.
That means there should be a mutual fund to fit nearly everyone's investment style and goals.
The data-mining software is partly based on a model the SEC developed to trawl through hedge fund returns for signs of Bernard Madoff-style chicanery.
With a given hedge fund client, we knew exactly what their style was and could match them with people on the other side of the trade.
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But according to the fund tracking firm EPFR Global, while most style of funds saw outflows in the first week of February, three types of funds registered inflows.
Comments like that are what international bond fund managers used to hear coming out of the big emerging markets, like in Brazil, when in the late 1990s it appeared that only the International Monetary Fund could save it from an Argentinian-style default.
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In northern Iraq, insurgents are using Mafia-style rackets and extortion of legitimate businesses to fund deadly attacks on American and Iraqi forces.
Such a return-chasing approach might be justified if investors were rightly anticipating that a short-term improvement in the returns of a particular hedge fund indicated a long-term shift in favour of its style.
By providing access to funds investing in different styles, regions, or countries, fund supermarkets allow investors to employ active management strategies such as style rotation or country rotation that can help to reduce losses and increase returns.
But one thing market professionals agree on is that investors should always know a fund's position on this issue and make conscious choices about which style is right for them.
For more information on small-cap index fund investing, including a list of funds and ETFs that cover this style, read All About Index Funds and All About Asset Allocation.
Style drift is the second-most important reason to sell your mutual fund.
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Almost any hedge fund is off-limits, because of the genre's anything-goes investing style.
The investment style they use might currently be out of favor and buying from an in-house fund could result in lagging performances.
Even as the Group of 7 nations avoided a WTO-style contest for IMF head, America may pursue its own line on the future of the Fund, not to mention other multilateral lending agencies.
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