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  • FMI International Fund to close to new investors
    @PRESSmUP. I really wouldn't advise you do that.
    Say you owned it in taxable account @ one brokerage, and it closed, and you couldn't buy it in another taxable account @ another brokerage. THEN you could considering doing 1 share transfer and you'll be set. I think you will agree this seems reasonable.
    Now then if you had shares in taxable, and if you are eligible to invest in IRA, and fund closed, I think you could still transfer 1 share to IRA, and you again be okay.
    However, if you have shares in IRA, and if you try to transfer 1 share into taxable, you are running afoul of the rules. I guess if you don't mind paying penalty for what will effectively be a withdrawal you might be okay. However, think about it now. Why you want to go through the hassle? If you have Schwab or Scottrade, just purchase $100 worth since that's the minimum.
    I just put in order for $100 in my IRA.
  • Funds with high cash stakes
    Already own PVFIX, ICMAX and a smattering of FMIMX. Royce Fund I will never buy because I refuse to believe they run independently of Legg Mason and have clearly demonstrated their penchant for starting new funds no freakin' reason. Besides 12% is mere accident I feel and I really don't think they are absolute value investors. FMIMX also I'm not sure is but I bought for different reason.
    So ICMAX and PVFIX are perfect examples of what I was looking for and already own them. My search yielded TILDX and BRUFX - two funds I've long contemplated buying and have been waiting for correction to buy. Needless to say been waiting for long time, but if I sell out of other funds for tax management purposes, I will most probably deploy the proceeds into these two. Another reason I haven't pulled the plug is they are not available at brokerages. TILDX at least I can buy online. BRUFX is a pain.
  • FMI International Fund to close to new investors
    Nice! I own it in my taxable account. I own OAKIX in my IRA. FMIJX has demonstrated itself to be a superior fund especially from a risk perspective. OAKIX does better in good markets. At this point in time, thinking I should at least get a $100 foothold in my IRA as I contemplate switching out of OAKIX and into FMIJX.
  • FMI International Fund to close to new investors
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023391/000089706917000173/cg891.htm
    497 1 cg891.htm
    Filed pursuant to Rule 497(k)
    Filed pursuant to Rule 497(e)
    1933 Act File No. 333-12745
    1940 Act File No. 811-07831
    FMI Funds, Inc.
    FMI International Fund
    Investor Class FMIJX / Institutional Class FMIYX
    March 17, 2017
    Supplement to the Prospectus and Summary Prospectus
    dated January 31, 2017
    FMI International Fund (the “Fund”) to be Closed to New Investors
    Effective April 30, 2017, the Fund will be closed to new investors. Except as indicated below, after April 30, 2017, only investors of the Fund on April 30, 2017, whether owning shares of record or through a processing intermediary, are eligible to purchase shares of the Fund. Exceptions include:
    § Participants in an employee retirement plan for which the Fund is an eligible investment alternative and whose records are maintained by a processing intermediary having an agreement with the Fund in effect on April 30, 2017.
    § Clients of a financial adviser or planner who had client assets invested in the Fund on April 30, 2017.
    § Employees, officers and directors of the Fund or Fiduciary Management, Inc., the investment adviser to the Fund (referred to as the “Adviser”), and members of their immediate families (namely, spouses, siblings, parents, children and grandchildren).
    § Firms having an existing business relationship with the Adviser, whose investment the officers of the Fund determine, in their sole discretion, would not adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Fund effectively.
    § An investment in the Fund that officers of the Fund determine, in their sole discretion, would not adversely affect the Adviser’s ability to manage the Fund effectively.
    The Fund reserves the right, at any time, to re-open or modify the extent to which the future sales of shares are limited.
    In connection with the closing of the Fund, the discussion on “Exchanging Shares” on page 33 of the Prospectus is deleted and replaced in its entirety with the following:
    EXCHANGING SHARES
    Shares of a Fund may be exchanged for shares of any other Fund or for the First American Retail Prime Obligations Fund, subject to minimum purchase requirements:
    ·FMI Large Cap Fund
    ·FMI Common Stock Fund
    ·FMI International Fund (must be an existing shareholder of the FMI International Fund, as the Fund is closed to new investors)
    ·First American Retail Prime Obligations Fund
    at the relative net asset values. An affiliate of USBFS advises the First American Retail Prime Obligations Fund. This is a money market mutual fund offered to respond to changes in your goals or market conditions. Neither USBFS nor First American Retail Prime Obligations Fund is affiliated with the Funds nor the Adviser. You may have a taxable gain or loss as a result of an exchange because the Internal Revenue Code treats an exchange as a sale of shares. The registration of both the account from which the exchange is being made and the account to which the exchange is being made must be identical. Exchanges may be authorized by telephone unless the option was declined on the account application.
    How to Exchange Shares
    1.Read this Prospectus (and the current prospectus for the fund for which shares are to be exchanged) carefully. (Please note that the FMI International Fund is currently closed to new investors, subject to certain limited exceptions as set forth above.)
    2. Determine the number of shares you want to exchange keeping in mind that exchanges to open a new account are subject to a $1,000 minimum ($2,500 with regard to the FMI International Fund and the First American Retail Prime Obligations Fund) for Investor Class shares and a $100,000 minimum for Institutional Class shares.
    3.Write to FMI Funds, Inc., c/o U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC, P.O. Box 701, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-0701.
    Once a telephone transaction has been placed, it cannot be canceled or modified.
    Call the transfer agent at 1-800-811-5311 to obtain the necessary exchange authorization forms and the First American Retail Prime Obligations Fund Prospectus. This exchange privilege does not constitute an offering or recommendation on the part of the FMI Funds or the Adviser of an investment in any of the foregoing mutual funds.
    ********
    The date of this Supplement is March 17, 2017.
    Please retain this Supplement for future reference.
  • Funds with high cash stakes
    >> hardly seen a fund actually use it
    ?? Depends on what proportion and what circumstance, right? FPACX and other FPA funds are famous in this regard, but there are others, Weitz Value IIRC, Delafield a couple years ago, some others; just google for articles.
    I agree, other notable examples: PVFIX 45%, ICMAX 38%, FMIMX 17%, RYSEX 12%.
  • Tax Efficient Balanced Funds
    Hello all,
    Just curious about your options for using a balanced fund in a taxable account as a core holding. After getting hit with a rather large tax bill for 2016, I'm looking to put together a more tax efficient portfolio. I'm paring back on some income producing CEFs and looking to put that money to work in a more tame, tax efficient manner. Some options such as VBINX, CBLAX and VTMFX have appeared on my radar. Any other candidates? Thanks in advance.
  • Funds with high cash stakes
    For what it is worth ...
    I have noticed an increase of cash being held in a good number of my asset allocation and fixed income funds throuh doing an Instant Xray on my funds along with my portfolio as a whole. Enough to where it has added a one to two percent increase to my overall cash allocation within my portfolio. Plus, I take most all my mutual fund distributions in cash. With this, cash can build pretty quickly within my portfolio and as I write cash now totals in the low twenty percent range.
    Some of my funds with a large cash position are GIFAX (19%) ... TEQIX (15%) ... TSIAX (11%) ... THIFX (9%) ... DDIAX (9%) ... and FBLAX (8%). There are others.
  • Funds with high cash stakes
    I'm guessing that VF is looking for a situation where funds may attempt to protect a bit on the downside by shifting from 100% invested to a lesser amount if they suspect that trouble is immanent.
    Yes, he could attempt to do that juggling act himself with a mix of (for example) 80% of100% invested funds and 20% cash, but that would require a huge amount of time and constant attention, plus some special ANALisis methodology which he may not possess.
  • Funds with high cash stakes
    I have often been impressed by your posts but why not put 80% of your money that you want to invest in this high cash fund into a say a balanced fund and 15% in a short term bond fund and 5% in eithera money market fund or perhaps something more exotic
  • Why Health Care Is The Top Sector Of 2017
    Hi @Ted
    The most critical wording/thought from the article:
    "Bargain Hunting Fueling Outperformance
    In the meantime, the health care sector, led by biotech, is seeing a resurgence in 2017 after a poor showing in 2016. Health care was the only sector within the S&P 500 to decline last year, as XLV shed 2.8%. Biotech fared even worse, losing 21.4%.
    Thus, the year-to-date rally may have more to do with investors buying up beaten-up names than anything to do with potential changes in health care laws."
    >>> A "value" discovery in a sector that has maintained a most decent monetary growth pattern for many years. NOT, unlike the rotations that take place between the large, mid and small cap, growth and value sectors. Value was the "rage" in 2016, eh?
    The rotation for 2017:
    http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3020-lipperindx.html?mod=topnav_2_3023
    Summary: large money chasing the best place to invest for a decent return.
    Regards,
    Catch
  • Why Health Care Is The Top Sector Of 2017
    FYI: What's the best-performing sector of the year? Health care―but probably not for the reasons you might expect.
    Surprisingly, the approaching repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as “Obamacare,” hasn't had much of an impact on the sector at all.
    Regards,
    Ted
    http://www.etf.com/sections/features-and-news/why-health-care-top-sector-2017?nopaging=1
  • Help me and others here "GROK" the pending FEDERAL budget and investment sectors impact
    TO GROK:
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grokking
    I suppose one could sub-title the word into a book title, "The Art of the Grok". Many levels of GROK(king) exist dependent upon one's age, cranial wiring and life experiences. I lean towards this partial definition: to understand thoroughly and intuitively. 'Course, relative to pending Federal budget submissions; to understand thoroughly and intuitively may travel along the edge of "The Twilight Zone", eh? Indeed, way past my pay grade. I've been a lifelong student/believer in grokking. I just didn't know the word or implied meaning until the early 70's.
    To the investment side of this however, I/we will appreciate inputs here from whatever sources as to the views of those who will be studying federal budget areas going forward; with the assumption that some budget proposals will go into the paper shredder and/or become perverted into legislation that may or may not resemble its original form and intent.
    A small trinket of info here (charts are clickable for large format):
    http://www.zerohedge.com/print/590515
    ADD: 3-16-17 @9:50
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/16/here-are-the-federal-agencies-and-programs-trump-wants-to-eliminate/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.22c6eff172fc
    (Don't forget the comments section....usually interesting, and the READ MORE at the end of the article)
    Hold Harmless Agreement: For informational purposes only. Not an endorsement. The accuracy of the information should be verified from other sources, as necessary and/or available.
    With reading this statement, you have electronically signed my "hold harmless" agreement.....

    Thank you.
    Catch
  • Funds with high cash stakes
    I'm trying to use the M* Premium Fund Screener. Forget the fact I can't seem to figure out how to use it. I am trying to find funds that don't have "always invested 100% mandate". Is it possible to screen for funds with cash stakes (say) 20% +?
  • Fidelity Inflation-Protected Bond Fund to close?
    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/35315/000137949117001676/filing836.htm
    497 1 filing836.htm PRIMARY DOCUMENT
    Supplement to the
    Fidelity® Inflation-Protected Bond Fund
    May 28, 2016
    Prospectus
    Effective after the close of business on March 31, 2017, new positions in the fund may no longer be opened. Existing shareholders may continue to hold their shares and purchase additional shares through the reinvestment of dividend and capital gain distributions.
    IFB-17-01
    1.774739.115 March 15, 2017
    Supplement to the
    Fidelity® Inflation-Protected Bond Fund
    Class A, Class T, Class B and Class C
    May 28, 2016
    Prospectus
    Effective after close of business on March 24, 2017, Class T will be renamed Class M.
    Effective after the close of business on March 31, 2017, new positions in the fund may no longer be opened. Existing shareholders may continue to hold their shares and purchase additional shares through the reinvestment of dividend and capital gain distributions.
    AIFB-17-02
    1.790682.127 March 15, 2017
    Supplement to the
    Fidelity® Inflation-Protected Bond Fund
    Class I
    May 28, 2016
    Prospectus
    Effective after the close of business on March 31, 2017, new positions in the fund may no longer be opened. Existing shareholders may continue to hold their shares and purchase additional shares through the reinvestment of dividend and capital gain distributions.
    AIFBI-17-01
    1.790683.120 March 15, 2017