"The fund also ranks in the top 1% of its short-term category for the one-, three-and five-year periods. While those results are impressive, the comparison is a bit misleading. The short-term categorization from Morningstar is merely a reflection of the fund’s current portfolio, which has an average effective duration of about three years." (Barron's profile, my emphasis)
FATRX is not a ST bond fund, and neither is THOPX (as some MFOers recently characterized it in another thread); they are total return bond funds which, for now, have chosen to keep their durations short enough, for long enough, that M* has thrown them into the ST bond category (resulting, IMO, in some pretty serious distortions in relative performance and purpose).
Nonetheless, I checked out FATRX awhile back and thought Elswick could become a good one. His core plus portfolio has been and is presently somewhat different than standard fare. Too bad it comes with a FEL=2.25%; just such a turnoff for me

Hello,
As of Sunday October 9, 2014 @ 2:45 AM EST ... SGGDX has yet to update with Friday's closing price in both the M* fund report and their portfolio manager system.
So you can see this with your own eyes I have provided a link to the fund report. Notice it is showing pricing and performance information as of market close of Thursday 10/06/2014.
http://quotes.morningstar.com/fund/f?t=SGGDX&region=USA
If there was something broke at my old firm we would have wanted to know ... and, with this I plan to extend this courtesy and call them on Monday. Thanks rjb112 for providing contact numbers.
I'll post an update about this on Monday.
I am thinking ... This is not good. Hopefully, they will have a fix soon?

Sometimes you have to work with the hand you're dealt. My first 403b experience was through a life insurance company that took 5% off the top of all contributions. A few years later the employer switched to another life insurer with better fees up front but heavy penalties for withdrawal before the 7 year vesting period was up.
Don't let these bad policies get at you @MaxBialystock. The benefit of the lowered AGI on your income taxes exceeds the fees they throw at you. Also, time is a great compounder. You lose out a lot by skipping years of contributions. The miracle of compounding as it is called.
Of course max out any other plans you have like IRA's.

Acadian Funds
http://www.acadian-asset.com/~/media/Files/Topics/Mutual Funds/CapGainDistributionAcadianFunds2014.ashx
Causeway Funds
http://www.causewayfunds.com/pdfs/2014_Distribution_Estimates.pdf
Ariel Funds
https://www.arielinvestments.com/content/view/2833/1850/

Bruce Berkowitz is even "all in" with Sears in his Fairholme Focused Income fund, FOCIX.
More than 26% of the portfolio is a Sears bond.

I suspect any responses you get will be from legacy investors like Maurice and myself. Though unlike Maurice, I did invest in a Columbia fund ages ago, when Columbia was a boutique shop in Oregon with a few good growth funds. Got rid of that in 1997 when Columbia was acquired by Fleet Boston (later called Fleet Financial).
The Acorn lineage that Maurice is referring to is almost completely separate. Liberty acquired a bunch of fund companies including Stein Roe (Young Investors fund, Stein Roe Special), Newport Pacific (Newport Tiger Fund), Wanger (Acorn Funds), and others.
Fleet Boston brought these Liberty lines together with Columbia in 2001 (when it acquired Liberty). BofA in turn acquired the whole mess in 2004, subsequently merging some Nations Bank funds into it. (BofA had merged with Nations Bank previously.)
Regarding Excelsior funds - they were acquired by US Trust (which was acquired at some point by Schwab, but sold to BofA in 2007), and rebranded Columbia when BofA acquired them.
BofA has since sold the Columbia line to Ameriprise.
The Acorn funds have been kept somewhat separate, but otherwise, I don't have a clue what "Columbia Funds" means anymore. It's certainly not the low cost growth-oriented boutique I bought years ago.
I do know that they make it exceedingly difficult for "eligible investors" (those who are allowed to purchase noload Z shares like SMGIX). Can't seem to open an account online, can't even find an application to download that includes Z class shares.
Columbia has closed off access to Z shares via supermarkets - you can buy their A shares, but Z share accounts are frozen (no buys allowed, even for grandfathered customers).
You put all that together, and maybe Columbia is of interest for hard-to-find types of funds, but it's not a family I'd be looking to for most categories. All that said, Pope seems to be doing a fine job at SMGIX. It's natural that this resembles the current incarnation of UMBIX, since Pope manages that as well (albeit with others there).
But as M* opines, it's a different style now - not the same as the value-oriented fund you sold off. If that's what you're looking for, it seems you may still need to keep looking.

I've been putting up with this SLOTH with morningstar portfolio manager
for YEARS. It's part of the reason I resigned my M* premium membership BACK
in 2005 !!!!!!!!! -yes that many years and it never really improves. I also use FREE
M* port. mgr @ TRP. AND It's WORSE THERE.!!!
--I generally get fund updates from MARKETWATCH .COM which usually show current
nav shortly after 6PM EST.

Thanks, Ted.
Some others that I own* or track:
PRSVX -0.22
MSCFX 6.37*
PRDSX 3.96
OTCFX 3.88
NAESX 5.34*
Friday was a positive day in general for small-caps, but PRDSX was down, I suppose due to its holding in Salix.
http://quotes.morningstar.com/stock/slxp/s?t=SLXP&exch=XNAS&r=United+States&culture=en-US

@Tampabay: FYI:
Regards,
Ted
YTD As Of 11/07/14:
VTI: 10.67%
TLT: 20.53%
VGSH: 0.54%
IAU: -(2.65)%
4 Fund Average Return: 7.27% - VTI Alone 10.67%

So far in 2014, it(permanent) has gained 6.4 percent to October 24th. Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Index, by comparison, gained 5.45 percent.
VTSMX+10.53ytd Nov 7th (2 weeks later) and Permanent is ___? my guess...

Ok, Darcey you can do corrections..
Lets try investing: Give me 5 advantages of ETFs over Mutual Funds, since your on a mutual fund Site....I'm interested
Warning: My wife can get three of them

The real question is who has the best football team and fight song.
Regards,
Ted
Football: Harvard vs. Yale:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard–Yale_football_rivalry
Harvard:

Yale:

And here's energy...XLE:

Thanks Catch.
Here's update for AGG...

@Charles Aside from actions in the equity areas......
The below list are etf's we monitor, in particular; among others.
Friday close was interesting, in bondland, IMHO:
(these are Friday only numbers)
IEF +0.64%
LQD +0.63%
TIP +0.58%
LTPZ + 1.3%
IWM +0.15%
IYR -0.08%
HYG +0.10%
VWO +0.65%
ITOT +0.08%
IBB -1.08%
Take care,
Catch

Interesting day for couple issues, like SHLD.
Oil continues to recover.
Lighter volume, maybe cause of holiday weekend.
Actually, nice to have a week without volatility...

@Old_Skeet: I always use Yahoo Finance for mutual fund quotes. It might have changed ,but closing NAV's are sent to First Data in Omaha by the fund companies and released to the public at 4:45 PM CST, however; there are occasions when NAV's aren't released till later. The problem with M* quotes is internal
Regards,
Ted
SGGDX: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SGGDX&ql=1
FAAFX: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=FAAFX&ql=1

Is this on their website or via the app? I don't use M* but my other apps usually settle about 1.5-3 hours after the close depending on how busy a day it was. Yours seems like something might be wrong at M*.

Is anybody that uses Moringstar's Portfolio System having a concern with timely price updating of their mutual funds after market close?
It use to be that I'd have relative good price updaing by 6:30 PM EST. During the past couple of months it seems the price updating is taking longer and longer ... and, as I write this, one of my securities SGGDX has not yet updated with Friday's closing price ... and, today is Saturday, 7:50 AM EST.