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I was looking at some of the other Madison Funds:High Income and Covered Call & Income Funds. I have already called to see if I would be grandfathered to buy other "Y" class funds for less than $25K. Too early to get all the details.
Basically…
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1040612/000104061219000058/madisonsmallcapprospsupple.htm
Madison Funds
Supplement dated May 22, 2019
This Supplement amends the Prospectus of the Madison Funds and the Summary Prospectus
for the Madison S…
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/787623/000119312519148019/d751316d497.htm
Update:
497 1 d751316d497.htm TRANSAMERICA MULTI-CAP GROWTH FUND
TRANSAMERICA FUNDS
Supplement to the Currently Effective Prospectuses, Summary Prospectuses and …
Incidentally, both the focus and focus-plus strategy funds also reopened.
Vulcan Value Partners Focus
Vulcan Value Partners Focus Plus
https://www.pionline.com/article/20190418/ONLINE/190419831/vulcan-value-partners-reopens-large-cap-equity-strate…
Purchased MSCFX after it made 2018 distributions. It is a small cap core fund. Also have PRDSX being a quant fund for growth.
If you don't care about expenses, WMICX (small cap core) has been on a tear the last several years.
After December 31, there was a message that it would be no longer available. There would be a modified version available to online subscribers, but not to the general masses.
Here is the link from GP. It reads as if a "hard close" except to existing investors only.
https://www.grandeurpeakglobal.com/documents/grandeurpeakglobal-pr-20190329.pdf
After thinking about this, this may be the annual filing listing the same information as last year like @Ted mentioned. It just serves as a reminder that the fund is available directly through Vanguard.
This was a private fund before it became a mutual fund (from SEC registration filing):
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/29440/000119312514047900/d647972d485apos.htm#toc152158_1g
A private fund managed and funded by Dodge & Cox was reorg…
As a side note, the small cap fund is/was managed by Frank L. Susteric who was withTurner Funds who ran its Emerging Growth Fund/Micro Cap Fund.
My guess is the non-compete contract that was signed when Chartwell acquired Berwin Funds ended as so d…
This is a peculiar explanation:
"Based on the recommendation of the adviser and given the Fund’s anticipated future expense, the Board has determined that liquidating the Fund would be in the best interests of the Fund and its shareholders."
Unfortunately, PRIDX is closed to new investors.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313212/000031321218000042/idfpta-march11.htm
Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares
Effective at the close of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 2, 2018,…
Yes, those admiral classes of index funds (some newly created) will be accessible for $3K to normal investors are listed above. I converted my investor class 500 index fund (VFINX) into the admiral class of the 500 index fund (VFIAX) by accessing m…
The funds listed above are affected by the change and the $3K initial investment.
Below is the earlier link concerning the change:
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/45476/vanguard-change-coming
T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund, Inc.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1116626/000111662619000004/gtfstatsticker-february20193.htm
497 1 gtfstatsticker-february20193.htm
T. ROWE PRICE GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY FUND
Supplement to Prospectu…
Yes, I remember when Kinder Morgan MLP shareholders received significant income in taxable and non-taxable accounts when the MLPs were converted into Kinder Morgan stock.
Here is a reminder of that incident:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/f…
Hard to say as there are no expenses listed. Thought it may be a retirement type offering or advisor type of fund, but not sure after reading below excerpt.
Eligibility requirements to purchase shares are as follows:
Buying Shares
Eligibility
S…
No real reason whatsoever to invest in the fund.
Fund management will announce the benefit of the reorganization in its shareholder proxy vote. Poor performance and lack of assets have hindered the fund to grow.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edg…
Will not be able to do much as the fund is "hard" closed. Funny, why they did not just liquidate the fund when they "hard" closed it since the fund had only $12.8M?
Why prolong the agony?
@JoeD
If you have concerns, you can always start with a very small position and see how it progresses over time before making a significant investment.
I am sure others have had concerns with an investment in a mutual fund. The fund is registered…
@BenWP
I called the transfer agent;the telephone number is:
(440) 922-0066 ext. 123 (that is a direct line to Steven Milcinovic at Mutual Shareholder Services LLC).
He actually emailed me the applications.
@JoeD,
The telephone number on the website seems to be to the actual office of the fund rather than the transfer agent's office.
There was a post on M* (under "Bond Squad" with STATX) that resonates the same sentiment about the telephone number to…
Here is a link to the earlier discussion concerning this fund
https://www.mutualfundobserver.com/discuss/discussion/46465/state-funds-enhanced-ultra-short-duration-mutual-fund-statx
I bought a very small taxable position with the agent. One problem seems to be lack of availability with a lot of brokerages. As you pointed out, it has a short track record.
Website is somewhat simple so it probably doesn't catch one's eye.
Has …
