Fortunately, going off-road is what the RidgeWorth Large Cap Growth Stock fund does best.
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Many a stock fund flew high in the New Era bull market and then crashed.
That's about double what you should expect to pay for a domestic stock fund.
This volatility is more like a leveraged stock fund rather than a bond fund.
The decline in stock and stock fund allocations occurred as volatility returned to the equity markets.
Stock and stock fund allocations fell by 3.4 percentage points last month to 53.1%.
Stock and stock fund allocations rebounded to a three-month high in the July AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
Such a portfolio would be an alternative not to a stock fund but to a money market fund.
Stock and stock fund allocations fell to a seven-month low according to the May AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
Pension funds, 401(k) plans and other institutional investors are typically the largest contributors to daily stock fund flows.
This and rising stock prices helped to boost stock and stock fund allocations back above their historical average.
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According to fund tracker Morningstar , the average domestic stock fund has embedded losses worth 40% of fund assets.
Individual investors increased their stock and stock fund holdings last month, according to the April AAII Asset Allocation Survey.
This was the seventh consecutive month that stock and stock fund allocations were above their historical average of 60%.
Stock and stock fund allocations rose 1.6 percentage points to 60.7% in March.
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Leveraged Company Stock Fund has an impressive five-year annual average return of 35%.
Using Morningstar data, Sharpe found the average actively-managed U.S. stock fund had an expense ratio of 1.12 percent during 2012.
That would typically be a bond fund with an average duration of more than four years or a stock fund.
Yes, in the fourth quarter, the stock fund soared 10.9 percent, but the combined holdings still registered a satisfying 6.1 percent.
For example, an investor typically decides to buy a U.S. stock fund before they decide the type of U.S. stock fund.
About 1.75% of assets, not a lot more than the 1.57% the average managed mutual stock fund charges, according to Morningstar.
While the average stock fund fell by about 40% that year, the average hedge fund's drop was about 20%, according to Morningstar.
White's exhaustive valuation studies and fundamental research looked outdated, and many a stock fund clobbered his portfolio's respectable 26.3% return for 1999.
Worse still, why should participants pay an annual operating expense of 42 basis points to buy units in the Marriott International Stock Fund?
Even with the decline, May was the eighth consecutive month that stock and stock fund allocations were above their historical average of 60.0%.
Joel Tillinghast, a longtime Fidelity stock fund manager who is writing a book about investing, asked how they think about companies' returns on capital.
In 2009, hedge funds lagged the stock market considerably, returning just 20% on average versus the average stock fund's 35% gain, according to Morningstar.
These funds are the Developed Markets Index Fund ( VDMIX), the European Stock Index Fund ( VEURX) and the Pacific Stock Index Fund ( VPACX).
The stock fund lost more than 1 percent of its value in five separate months, yet in four of those months, the bond fund rose.
At the same time, uncertainty about the economy kept stock and stock fund allocations from rising significantly at the expenses of bonds and bond funds.
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