(in my opinion) Third Ave Value has been the biggest offender I have seen to date establishing itself as a premier
mid-cap value fund and over a 5 or 6 year period moving to a «world fund» go any place buy anything type of fund.
For the last 15 years it has compounded at 12 % vs. 9.3 % for the average
mid-cap value fund.
With all the challenges the TRP fund has, it is still a reasonable
mid-cap value fund, just not built to be a great small - cap value fund.
In the case of the TRP
Mid-Cap Value Fund they ended in the top 9 % for 15 years.
Negative skill contributed to the poor performance of the bottom 2 % of mid-cap growth, bottom 10 % of mid-cap blend and bottom 5 % of
mid-cap value fund managers.
This $ 1.1 billion
mid-cap value fund has a 5.50 % maximum sales charge, 0.99 % expense ratio and 45 % turnover.
In sum, under current management the AllianzGI NFJ
Mid-Cap Value Fund underperformed its benchmark ETF and added little value over its reference ETF portfolio.
A recent piece in Barron's covers the AllianzGI NFJ
Mid-Cap Value Fund (PQNAX; Class A shares).
Lead manager Scott Moore led the American Century
Mid-Cap Value Fund (AVUAX) and another fund from 2004 - 08.
I prefer to maintain exposure to small value stocks, so I won't wait around for the impending transition to the team's
mid-cap value fund.
REGL was rated against 361 U.S. - domiciled
Mid-Cap Value funds for the last three years ending March 31, 2018.
With respect to
these Mid-Cap Value funds, REGL received a Morningstar Rating of 5 stars for the three - year period.
As of 4/30/2018 Morningstar Ratings ™: The Heartland Mid Cap Value Fund institutional class was rated against -, -, and 364 U.S. - domiciled
Mid-Cap Value funds over the 10 -, 5 -, and 3 - year periods and received -, -, and 4 stars, respectively.
As of 4/30/2018 Morningstar Ratings ™: The Heartland Mid Cap Value Fund investor class was rated against -, -, and 364 U.S. - domiciled
Mid-Cap Value funds over the 10 -, 5 -, and 3 - year periods and received -, -, and 4 stars, respectively.
There are exceptions - lower - fee actively managed large cap and
mid-cap value funds outperformed the indexes 66.3 % and 68.2 % of the time over a 10 year period.
Within stocks and bonds, we aim to invest in leading areas, and our stock portfolios are currently focused on domestic
mid-cap value funds.
Not exact matches
Imagine investing in a small - cap
value fund only to find out a few months later that it has transformed into a
mid-cap blend
fund in order to improve its ranking versus peers.
This
fund attempts to build an index at
mid-cap value stocks.
Just like the small - cap
value fund, the
mid-cap value index
fund looks to achieve the same balance, expect with larger companies.
Based on these categories, mutual
funds receive rankings based on highest - rated
value, highest - rated growth, daily gainers and losers, category of highest and lowest returns, highest - rated large - cap
funds, highest - rated
mid-cap funds, small - cap
funds, high - yield bond
funds, high and low risk foreign
funds, top year to date performers, analysis of prior year's top performers and...
The top 25 mutual
funds according to Kiplinget.com as of September 30, 2009 are:
FUND NAME SYMBOL Baron Small Cap BSCFX CGM Focus CGMFX Dodge & Cox Stock DODGX Fairholme Fund FAIRX FBR Focus FBRVX Fidelity Contrafund FCNTX Fidelity Low - Priced Stock FLPSX FPA Crescent FPACX Longleaf Partners LLPFX Pimco CommodityRealRet Strat D PCRDX Selected American Shares S SLASX T. Rowe Price Equity Income PRFDX T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth RPMGX T. Rowe Price Small - Cap Value PRSVX Vanguard Primecap Core VPCCX Vanguard Selected Value VASVX Artio International Equity II A JETAX Dodge & Cox Intl Stock DODFX Marisco Global MGLBX T. Rowe Price Emg Mkts Stock PRMSX Dodge & Cox Income DODIX Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income FLTMX Harbor Bond Institutional HABDX Loomis Sayles Bond LSBRX Vanguard Infl - Protected Secs VIPSX These mutual funds cover a wide variety of ass
FUND NAME SYMBOL Baron Small Cap BSCFX CGM Focus CGMFX Dodge & Cox Stock DODGX Fairholme
Fund FAIRX FBR Focus FBRVX Fidelity Contrafund FCNTX Fidelity Low - Priced Stock FLPSX FPA Crescent FPACX Longleaf Partners LLPFX Pimco CommodityRealRet Strat D PCRDX Selected American Shares S SLASX T. Rowe Price Equity Income PRFDX T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth RPMGX T. Rowe Price Small - Cap Value PRSVX Vanguard Primecap Core VPCCX Vanguard Selected Value VASVX Artio International Equity II A JETAX Dodge & Cox Intl Stock DODFX Marisco Global MGLBX T. Rowe Price Emg Mkts Stock PRMSX Dodge & Cox Income DODIX Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income FLTMX Harbor Bond Institutional HABDX Loomis Sayles Bond LSBRX Vanguard Infl - Protected Secs VIPSX These mutual funds cover a wide variety of ass
Fund FAIRX FBR Focus FBRVX Fidelity Contrafund FCNTX Fidelity Low - Priced Stock FLPSX FPA Crescent FPACX Longleaf Partners LLPFX Pimco CommodityRealRet Strat D PCRDX Selected American Shares S SLASX T. Rowe Price Equity Income PRFDX T. Rowe Price
Mid-Cap Growth RPMGX T. Rowe Price Small - Cap
Value PRSVX Vanguard Primecap Core VPCCX Vanguard Selected
Value VASVX Artio International Equity II A JETAX Dodge & Cox Intl Stock DODFX Marisco Global MGLBX T. Rowe Price Emg Mkts Stock PRMSX Dodge & Cox Income DODIX Fidelity Intermediate Municipal Income FLTMX Harbor Bond Institutional HABDX Loomis Sayles Bond LSBRX Vanguard Infl - Protected Secs VIPSX These mutual
funds cover a wide variety of assets.
Tata Balanced
Fund ICICI Pru
Value Discovery
Fund - Reg (G) Franklin India High growth co HDFC
Mid-Cap Opportunities
Fund (G)
Even though each
fund has a investment style, such as large - cap
value or
mid-cap growth, the
fund's style itself can't be used directly to determine the allocation of a portfolio because each
fund contains many, possibly hundreds (for example an index
fund that tracks the S&P 500) or even thousands (such as a total market
fund), individual stocks that belong to different categories.
The
fund's top equivalent positions were in the iShares Russell 1000 Growth ETF (IWF; average weight of 28.3 %), Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC; 15.6 %), iShares S&P
Mid-Cap 400
Value ETF (IJJ; 12.6 %), Vanguard Industrials ETF (VIS; 10.1 %), Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE; 8.5 %), and Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH; 7.4 %).
If your investment horizon is 10 + years, you may consider ICICI Pru
value discovery & Franklin Smaller companies
funds / HDFC
Mid-cap opportunities
fund.
If your investment objective is long term accumulation only then you may consider
funds like Franklin Prima Plus / ICICI Pru
value discovery + HDFC
Mid-cap opportunity
fund + Franklin Smaller companies
fund.
1) Axix LT Equty
Fund Growth — 1000 (Present Hold
Value 4ooo) 2) HDFC
Mid-Cap Opportunities
Fund Growth — 1000 (Present Hold
Value 4000) 3) ICICI Prudential
Value Discovery
Fund Growth — 1000 (Present Hold
Value 6000) 4) Birla Sun Life MIP II — Wealth 25 Plan — Growth — 1000 (Present Hold
Value 1000)
Take an in - depth look at the Vanguard
Mid-Cap Value ETF, one of the largest and most popular mid-cap funds in the U.S. equity
Mid-Cap Value ETF, one of the largest and most popular
mid-cap funds in the U.S. equity
mid-cap funds in the U.S. equity space.
This tells us that the
fund is very evenly split between
value and growth stocks and that it's primarily a large - cap
fund, with modest
mid-cap and small - cap holdings.
Listed in order of assets under management and including Lipper categorization, the
Funds are: Parnassus Equity Income
Fund (Equity Income), Parnassus
Fund (Multi-Cap Core), Parnassus Small - Cap (Small - Cap
Value), Parnassus Workplace
Fund (Multi-Cap Core), Parnassus
Mid-Cap Fund (Multi-Cap Core).
Mututal
Fund Amount IDFC Sterling Equity
Fund Growth Direct Plan 2000 DSPBRMF Micro Cap
Fund — Dir — G 4000 HDFC Top 200
Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option 2000 HDFC
Mid-Cap Opportunities
Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option 2000 HDFC Equity
Fund — Direct Plan — Growth Option 2000 ICICI Prudential
Value Discovery
Fund — Direct Plan — Growth 4000 ICICI Prudential Focused Bluechip Equity
Fund — Direct Plan — Growth 3000
So, you may consider investing in Small &
Mid-cap oriented equity funds like — UTI mid-cap, Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund, HDFC Mid-cap or ICICI Prudential Value Discover
Mid-cap oriented equity
funds like — UTI
mid-cap, Franklin India Smaller Companies Fund, HDFC Mid-cap or ICICI Prudential Value Discover
mid-cap, Franklin India Smaller Companies
Fund, HDFC
Mid-cap or ICICI Prudential Value Discover
Mid-cap or ICICI Prudential
Value Discovery
Fund.
Large Cap: Franklin India Opportunities
Fund 1,000 Small and
Mid-Cap: ICICI Prudential
Value Discovery
Fund 1,500 Small and
Mid-Cap: DSP BlackRock Micro Cap
Fund 1,000 Small and
Mid-Cap: JP Morgan India Mid and Small Cap
Fund 1,000 Diversified: Franklin India High Growth Companies
Fund 1,500 Diversified: Franklin India Prima Plus
Fund 1,000
Using DFA's proven fundamental and quantitative models, the
fund invests in small - and
mid-cap stocks that are true
value stocks and holds them until they no longer fit the
fund's model.
Equities includes single country, regional and global
funds, small and
mid-cap funds, growth,
value and quantitative strategies, and defensive strategies to reduce market risk.
You may keep the below
funds; HDFC
Mid-cap UTI Equity / ICICI Focused UTI Opportunities ICICI
Value.
As you have a long - term view, you may reduce the allocation towards the balanced
fund and can consider investing more in icici
value & hdfc
mid-cap fund for next few years (say 3 to 5 years).
The
fund, which opened in 2001, is sub-advised by Systematic Financial Management, LP, and ranked best out of 30 contenders in the Lipper
Mid-Cap Value category.
Equity
fund sample includes the Morningstar historical categories: Diversified Emerging Markets, Europe Stock, Foreign Large Blend, Foreign Large Growth, Foreign Large
Value, Foreign Small / Mid Blend, Foreign Small / Mid Growth, Foreign Small / Mid
Value, Japan Stock, Large Blend, Large Growth, Large
Value, Mid - Cap Blend,
Mid-Cap Value, Miscellaneous Region, Pacific ex-Japan Stock, Small Blend, Small Growth, Small
Value, and World Stock.
The FAM
Value Fund primarily holds
mid-cap companies but does have some large - and small - cap names.
Portfolio 2 - 1) HDFC / TATA balanced
fund - Please choose one and % please 2) ICICI Prudential
value discovered
fund - % please 3) Franklin Smaller companies
fund - % please 4) HDFC
Mid-cap - % please
Portfolio 2 - 1) HDFC balanced fun - 20 % 2) ICICI
Value Discovery - 25 % 3) Franklin Smaller companies
fund - 30 % 4) HDFC
Mid-cap - 25 % You may make lump sum (additional investments) in the same proportion.
Long term Large Cap MF for 10 yrs Birla sl frontline equity (G)-- 3000 Long term Mid Cap MF for 10 yrs Franklin Smaller Companies
fund — 3000 Long Term Small Cap MF for 8 yrs Icici pru value discovery fund — 1500 UTI Mid-Cap — 1500 Long term Hybrid / Diversified for 8 yrs Tata Balanced Fund — 1000 Debt short term for investment Birla Sunlife MIP II Wealth 25 Plan (D)- SIP — 1000 Long term ELSS for 15 yrs Axis Long Term Equity - ELSS —
fund — 3000 Long Term Small Cap MF for 8 yrs Icici pru
value discovery
fund — 1500 UTI Mid-Cap — 1500 Long term Hybrid / Diversified for 8 yrs Tata Balanced Fund — 1000 Debt short term for investment Birla Sunlife MIP II Wealth 25 Plan (D)- SIP — 1000 Long term ELSS for 15 yrs Axis Long Term Equity - ELSS —
fund — 1500 UTI
Mid-Cap — 1500 Long term Hybrid / Diversified for 8 yrs Tata Balanced
Fund — 1000 Debt short term for investment Birla Sunlife MIP II Wealth 25 Plan (D)- SIP — 1000 Long term ELSS for 15 yrs Axis Long Term Equity - ELSS —
Fund — 1000 Debt short term for investment Birla Sunlife MIP II Wealth 25 Plan (D)- SIP — 1000 Long term ELSS for 15 yrs Axis Long Term Equity - ELSS — 1000
Dear Hima Bindu, You may consider as below; 10 years: ICICI
Value discovery & Franklin Smaller cos
fund 8 years: Birla Frontline & UTI
mid-cap.
Portfolio 2 — You may opt for ICICI Pru
value instead of Franklin Prima plus and HDFC
mid-cap opp
fund.
Your portfolio: HDFC
Mid-cap + ICICI
Value + HDFC balance
fund looks fine.
Long term goal: You may consider ICICI Pru
Value Discovery
Fund + HDFC Mid-cap opportunities fund + Franklin Smaller companies f
Fund + HDFC
Mid-cap opportunities
fund + Franklin Smaller companies f
fund + Franklin Smaller companies
fundfund.
for long term goal — Consider one Diversified
fund & one
mid-cap fund (Ex: ICICI Pru
value discovery & Franklin Smaller cos
fund).
Dear Aakash, You may consider HDFC
mid-cap or Mirae Emerging blue chip And Franklin High Growth companies / ICICI
Value discovery
fund.
Today there are almost 500 to choose from, including
value funds, small - and
mid-caps, both foreign and global SRI
funds.