It'll be interesting to see what they do with it now.
FWIW, Parnassus has a feature for easy lookup of historical holdings. On just a very quick check, looks like Wells first appears this year in May. Last time before that they held it looks like late 2010-2011.

Anyone know if Schwab permits this conversion if you're below the 100K minimum?

Schwab told me they don't do conversions for 3rd party funds when I called about converting my Seafarer

Hi Guys,
I don't believe that Ted posted this reference yet, but It just might impact the manner in which you do portfolo asset allocation.
Here is the Link to a recent article in a Wealth of CommonSense::
http://awealthofcommonsense.com/2016/09/is-the-value-premium-disappearing/
The article questions the sustainability of the value premium discovered decades ago by Fama and French. Over the last 10 years, it has not delivered the expected returns in the US marketplace. The author asks if it just a perturbation or a permanent sea change. He comes down on the perturbation side.
So do I. Trend deviations occur, even over a fairly long term period. Unless the investment world has dramatically changed, history demonstrates that a regression-to-the-mean is the most likely long term projection. Extrapolation into the future is always hazardous duty, but that's the name of the game when investing. Value products are still and will remain a portion of my portfolio. Regression reliably happens.
Best Regards.

If I wanted to go equal weighting, I'd go with BRLIX and its .15 ER, low-turnover offering. Not market capped, not sensational, kind of boring, but that's a good thing for long term investors. :)

I'm reading a book called Level 3 Investing, written by the retiring founder of AAII. In it he touts the superiority of equal weight indexing over market weighted indexes. Specifically he recommends RSP as the vehicle of choice to buy the S+P 500. Fair enough. But I am troubled by the management fee of 0.4%
M* comments that RSP has closely tracked VIMAX which is of course, much cheaper, so it seems like VIMAX would always have a good head start.
Another alternative I have found would be EUSA where you get 619 equally weighted positions instead of 500, which probably won't make a whole lot of difference -- but the management fee here is only 0.15%.
Given this, I really can't rationalize paying up for RSP, but the author has obviously carefully considered and come up with this choice. I would be interested in the thoughts and opinions of you, my esteemed brethren, (are there any girls here?) on this topic.
btw, it is a great book, and I recommend it.

American Funds:
https://www.americanfunds.com/individual/service-and-support/tax-center/2016-year-end-distributions.html
db x-trackers:https://etfus.deutscheam.com/US/EN/resources/about-us/news-updates/ETFCG_Estimates_2016-2016-11-15.pdf
Federated:http://www.federatedinvestors.com/FII/daf/pdf/46232.pdf
Franklin Templeton:
https://www.franklintempleton.com/content-us/pdf/en-us/en-us-retail/fund-info/GOF-PAKCG.pdf
Hartford:https://www.hartfordfunds.com/dam/en/docs/pub/funddocuments/regulatorydocument/Tax Center/2016 Hartford Mutual Funds Cap Gains estimate.pdf
Kopernik: http://kopernikglobal.com/sites/default/files/KGI CG MEMO 815 2016.pdf
Morgan Stanley:http://www.morganstanley.com/im/publication/forms/msf/estimated-2016-year-end-distributions.pdf
Naitonwide:https://nationwidefinancial.com/media/pdf/MFW-0391AO.pdf?_ga=1.238748873.838726131.1422368870
Oppenheimer:https://www.oppenheimerfunds.com/investors/doc/Capital_Gains_Distributions_Estimates.pdf?dig_asset_metrics=done
Putnam:https://www.putnam.com/literature/pdf/EO183.pdf
Royce:https://www.roycefunds.com/news/2016/10/open-end-funds-2016-year-end-distributions
Russell Investments:
https://russellinvestments.com/us/funds/tax-information
SunAmerica:https://www.safunds.com/pdf/capital-gains-estimates-as-of-9-30-16-with-nav.aspx
Thrivent:https://www.thriventfunds.com/support/tax-resource-center/capital-gains.html
Touchstone:http://www.touchstoneinvestments.com/documents/pdf/TSF618.pdf

Creating a forum for posting any capital gains distributions estimates as they come in... For each poster who posts multiple MF capital gains distributions, please try to alphabetize them under your one post.

FYI: As markets have grown steadily more efficient in recent decades, it has become more difficult – and expensive – for fund managers to deliver excess returns relative to benchmarks, or “alpha”.
Even though investment fund flows into passive strategies have accelerated steadily in recent years, active strategies still account for fully 70% of the $15 trillion in U.S. mutual funds. But active and passive are not the only choices. We are also seeing a booming trade in “smart beta” – an imprecisely defined cluster of rules-based strategies that avoid traditional cap-weighted index construction and seek profits amid market factors and inefficiencies
Regards,
Ted
http://lipperalpha.financial.thomsonreuters.com/2016/09/active-passive-and-smart-beta-whos-winning/?elq=6a3fe31c696445ed923814b3e87dbf10&elqCampaignId=166&elqTrackId=CAAB29B325AC713511E713F32E02F308&elqaid=1815&elqat=1&utm_campaign=Newsletter_LipperAlphaInsight_FundInsightsWeeklyUpdate&utm_content=Newsletter_FundsWeekly_September20&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

Anyone know if Schwab permits this conversion if you're below the 100K minimum?

FYI: As investors flee active managers, MFS Investment Management, which created the first mutual fund in 1924, is staying the course, picking blue-chip stocks and gaining assets
Investors are pouring into the $39.1 billion MFS Value Fund, which has added almost $2 billion in the past year. Flows into the $25.6 billion MFS International Value Fund have been so strong that the firm closed it to new investors in 2015.
Regards,
Ted
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-20/mfs-has-what-managers-crave-active-stock-funds-that-draw-money
M* Snapshot MEIAX:
http://www.morningstar.com/funds/XNAS/MEIAX/quote.html
M* Snapshot MGIAX:
http://www.morningstar.com/funds/xnas/mgiax/quote.html

FYI: Exchange officials on Monday morning busted more than 1,000 trades tied to hundreds of thousands of shares of the $148 million Guggenheim S&P Equal Weight Financial ETF (RYF) after ruling execution prices were “clearly erroneous.” Many other unusual-looking trades were allowed to stand.
Regards,
Ted
http://blogs.barrons.com/focusonfunds/2016/09/19/hundreds-of-thousands-of-trades-were-busted-in-a-financial-etf-this-morning/tab/print/

... what should be a target expectation for a response, or at least an acknowledgment?
I sent a brief, polite e-mail enquiry to a fund I own over a week ago asking if it would be issuing any statement about its recent purchase of WFC as its new #1 position given the fund's philosophy of ESG investing -- in particular, the "G" part of that in light of the WFC scandal.
Haven't heard boo back from them yet, not even saying we'll be in touch, thanks for your note, we're looking into it, we're running something past our lawyers now ... nothing.
Just wondering - is that normal practice?

Just received a prospectus and cover letter indicating some changes in today's mail.
Here is the 8/31/16 prospectus with the information.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/915802/000139834416017646/fp0021161_485bpos.htm
Here is an excerpt from one of the funds:
"...The Fund offers two classes of shares, Investor Class and Institutional Class shares. The minimum initial investment for both share classes is $2,000 for each account, or $1,000 if an Automatic Investment Program is established; except that the minimum to open an UGMA/UTMA or a Coverdell Education Savings Account is $100. There is no subsequent minimum investment amount for either share class."
The cover letter also states for those investors that do not hold their shares directly with Grandeur Peak:
"...Please note that some distribution channels may retain their own $100,000 minimum on the institutional share class, and some platforms may charge a transaction fee for this share class."
Existing Grandeur Peak shareholders that have their investments directly with Grandeur Peak only need to contact Grandeur Peak to facilitate the conversion.

See stablevalue.org, especially: why I can't find a stable value option for my IRA:
http://stablevalue.org/knowledge/faqs/question/why-cant-i-find-a-stable-value-investment-option-for-my-ira
Fund sponsors tried a decade or two ago to offer retail stable value funds and couldn't make them work.
In a broad sense, these are investment pools that buy fixed income investments guaranteed by insurers. They may be GICs issued directly by insurers, synthetic GICs, or some variant.
http://www.lmstrategies.com/types~2.html
Insurers may offer settlement accounts (like GICs, subject to the ability of the insuer to pay), or fixed annuities, both of which have a SV feel to them.
If you had gotten a TIAA IRA before 2010, the traditional annuity option would be paying 3%. (They pay only 1% on newer IRAs). IMHO that was one of the best deals going.
http://www1.tiaa-cref.org/public/fyi/performance/retirement/traditional/
The Bartelle fund is for employer plans (401(k), etc.):
https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=121341
"The fund is not a mutual fund. It is a separately managed investment fund available only to tax-qualified plans and their eligible participants."
https://retirementplans.vanguard.com/pe/pdfs/F4791.pdf?cbdForceDomain=false

Can a SV fund be bought in a retail brokerage account or are they only available only thru a 401k/403b or similar?

It looks like the institutional class carries an E/R of 1.31% (per M*); its TTM yield is 1.26%. So the E/R gobbles up over half of the income? Yikes!
Seems like a lot of money to pay when buying some combo of XLU and T/VZ/BCE would get the job done.
And yes, utes look pricey here. But then most asset classes look pricey fundamentally and "toppy" on the charts...

I can't find a link on Yahoo to these pages, but the info is still there. Here's the performance data for the Fidelity Fund going back to 1930. Just substitute the 5 letter ticker for the fund of your choice in the URL, and awaay you go.
https://finance.yahoo.com/q/pm?bypass=true&s=FFIDX Performance&ltr=1

I thought the evil website had calendar year returns on the performance page going back 15 years. Should be enough, no? Or if you really care about returns in 1980, that might be hard.

Hi Expatsp,
Thank you for your very kind words. I greatly appreciate them and your words of encouragement. I will continue the march.
Thank you also for the cautionary heads-up with respect to writing in a condescension manner. I was simply trying hard to be informative. I suppose I can try too hard.
My reference to the 50/50 coin toss was an attempt (failed)to be sarcastic. I am irritated by negative posts that take issue with some peripheral comment or even a single word to detract from the primary purpose of the post. So I sarcastically introduced my negative 50/50 coin toss reference to demonstrate the trivial nature of such a useless comment. These do not advance the discussion whatsoever.
I have often posted using the 50/50 illustration myself knowing that it is not 100% precise. The fact that it does not hold exactly has been known for decades, at least for the spinning version of it. It appears in many books on probability although various authors claim differing odds.
I suspect that much of the antipathy directed at my posts is prompted by my frequent references to statistics and Monte Carlo analyses. Some folks are intimidated by these references. They should not be since these tools are easily accessible on the Internet and can be used to better investment decisions. You need not be a mechanic to drive a car.
Thank you once again.
My Very Best Wishes.

Yahoo until fairly recently had complete year by year historical returns for mutual funds. For older funds, this information went back all the way into the 1940's or 50's. Yahoo, changed their site, and it seems this information is not longer available. It seems like this is very basic information and should be readily available everywhere. But it's now not easy to find.
For individual stocks, this information can be found at 1stock1.com
Does anyone know where I can now find it for mutual funds, now that Yahoo has dropped it?