A prudent balance
of stocks and
bonds A balanced approach: The fund seeks conservative growth plus income through a mix
of roughly 60 % stocks and 40 %
bonds.Seeking reduced volatility: The fund's focus on undervalued stocks and primarily high - quality
bonds is designed to reduce volatility for conservative and income - oriented investors.A rigorous process: The fund's experienced
portfolio managers use rigorous
fundamental investment research to find opportunities and manage risk.
Our research on the
Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to
bonds, underscores the widely held view in the
bond community that we should not choose to own more
of any security just because there's more
of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different
Fundamental Index
portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade
bonds (green), high - yield
bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most
of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).