Mutual Fund Insights: Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX)

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See Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) performance details as of February 28, 2010

  

Last Trade: $9.22 on 3/19/2010, Change: 0.00 (0%)

  

Fund Manager - Brady Lipp

Fund Manager Tenure: 4.5 years
Fundmojo Fund Grade: B (Score: 0.68)     (What does this score mean?)

Brady Lipp founded Akros Capital, LLC in 2003 and serves as managing principal and chief executive officer. Prior to that, Brady Lipp was a managing director at Credit Suisse Asset Management from 1999 to 2003 and a member of the global post-venture capital investment team. Lipp also served as a managing director at Warburg Pincus Asset Management from 1994 to 1999, and was an institutional relationship manager at Strong Capital Management from 1987 to 1994.  Get more insights on Brady Lipp

  

 What we like about Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX)

Data for Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) as of February 28, 2010

• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) management has been with Akros Absolute Return Fund for 4.5 years
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return 2.96% vs -1.74 % Long-Short category average)
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) has a Morningstar rating of 4 and above
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) is less volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 8.56, lower than category average of 10.54
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) has a lower management fee than its Long-Short average: 2.03% vs 2.08%

  

 What we are cautious about Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX)

Data for Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) as of February 28, 2010

• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) has a less-than-ideal short-term performance (1-year return 16.01% vs 17.12 % Long-Short category average)
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) ratio of up-years vs down years can be improved
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) is less safe compared to its Long-Short peers
• Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) has an annual stock turnover rate of 456.41% that is higher than the Long-Short average of 346.67%. This could mean Akros Absolute Return is more nimble, but also signal potential high tax impact and high trading fees
• Even though Akros Absolute Return Fund carries no load, it does have a 0.25% of 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

See Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) performance details as of February 28, 2010

  

  

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Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
02/2010	$5.81M
01/2010	$5.65M
11/2009	$4.43M

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Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX) Portfolio Allocation

Track portfolio allocation change of Akros Absolute Return fund (AARFX)

Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
09/2009	76.64%	19.89%	2.45%	1.02%
06/2009	62.48%	34.2%	1.46%	1.86%
03/2009	30.98%	61.46%	1.36%	6.21%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Akros Absolute Return Fund (AARFX)

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30-Sep-09 iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury [5.5%] SPDRs [3.02%] Myriad Genetics, Inc. [2.8%] Fibrogen Inc 144A [2.32%] HF Financial Corp. [1.93%] TRIAN ACQ I CORP [1.85%] Wendys Intl 6.25% [1.44%] Raza Microelectronics 144A [1.34%] Amazon.com, Inc. [1.33%] Intl Lease Fin 5.125% [1.32%]

30-Jun-09 HICKS ACQUISITION CP [3.11%] Fibrogen Inc 144A [2.43%] NeuroMetrix, Inc. [1.94%] TRIAN ACQ I CORP [1.91%] C B L & ASSOC PRP [1.81%] AMER SAFTY INS HLDGS [1.53%] NEW GEN BIOFUELS INC [1.47%] Embarq 7.082% [1.46%] Raza Microelectronics 144A [1.4%] CHUBB CP THE [1.19%]

31-Mar-09 Fibrogen Inc 144A [3.6%] HICKS ACQUISITION CP [3.13%] Merrill Lynch Pfd [2.88%] Star Scientific, Inc. [2.81%] Raza Microelectronics 144A [2.78%] InterMune, Inc. [2.43%] Communications Systems, Inc. [2.38%] AMER SAFTY INS HLDGS [2.34%] Travelers [2.1%] HF Financial Corp. [2.03%]

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