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Anybody have any opinions or insight concerning Baird Mutual Funds? Baird Midcap growth has been strong.....from what I can tell they really don't do anything special........any thoughts would be appreciated.
Interesting that you mention this fund. Baird has many billions in their funds, but almost all of it is in bonds. The BMDIX is small ($107 billion) and has top-5% results over last 1,3, and 5 years. Lead manager has been there since the fund started in 2000. There have been a number of other managers come and go with the fund, but there was some kind of straegic change between 2006 and 2007. BMDIX really lagged the benchmark from 03-06, but since then it has done really well. It holds up well against RPMGX and ARTMX.
Recent performance has been strong. Their new small cap value fund also seems to be off to a strong start.....in what I have read they are very fearful of concentration and veering from the benchmark in their equity funds.
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