Mutual Fund Insights: CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX)

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See CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) performance details as of October 31, 2009

  

Last Trade: $29.61 on 11/20/2009, Change: -0.20 (-0.67%)

  

Fund Manager - G. Kenneth Heebner

Fund Manager Tenure: 12.2 years
Fundmojo Fund Grade: B (Score: 0.68)     (What does this score mean?)

G. Kenneth Heebner is general partner and portfolio manager with Capital Growth Management, instrumental in helping launch the firm in 1990. Previously, G. Kenneth Heebner spent 12 years as the head of the portfolio management group for Loomis Sayles & Company. Heebner also served as vice president with Scudder Stevens and Clark from 1971 to 1976. G. Kenneth Heebner began his career in 1965 as an economist with A & H Kroeger. G. Kenneth Heebner holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

  

Performance	Management Fee	Turnover rate
CGMFX: -9.59% , -0.37% , 7.83% Category Average: 15.35% , -4.95% , 0.99%	CGMFX: 0.97% Category Average: 1.33%	CGMFX: YFT_NOT_APPLICA% Category Average: 110.55%

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 What we like about CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX)

Data for CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) as of October 31, 2009

• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) management has been with CGM Focus Fund for 12.2 years
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return -0.37% vs -4.95% Large Growth category average)
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) has good Long-term performance (5-year return 7.83% vs 0.99% Large Growth category average)
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) ratio of up-years vs down years is greater than 2
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) has a lower management fee than its Large Growth average: 0.97% vs 1.33%
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) is a true no-load fund as it has no load and no 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

  

 What we are cautious about CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX)

Data for CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) as of October 31, 2009

• CGM Focus Fund is a focused fund with 59.89% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) has a less-than-ideal short-term performance (1-year return -9.59% vs 15.35% Large Growth category average)
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) has a Morningstar rating of 3 and below
• CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) is more volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 32.16 that is higher than category average of 20.84

  

  

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CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
10/2009	$3.45B
09/2009	$3.61B
08/2009	$3.58B

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CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) Portfolio Allocation

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Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
06/2009	1.14%	98.86%	0%	0%
04/2009	0%	0%	0%	0%
03/2009	0.27%	99.73%	0%	0%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX)

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30-Jun-09 FORD MOTOR CO [7.45%] GOLDMAN SACHS GRP [7.34%] Amazon.com, Inc. [6.56%] Baidu.com, Inc. [5.73%] PENNEY J C CO HOLDIN [5.71%] Google Inc. [5.65%] MORGAN STANLEY [5.59%] BK OF AMERICA CP [5.4%] ABBOTT LABORATORIES [5.24%] CME GROUP INC CL A [5.22%]

30-Apr-09 N/A [0%] N/A [0%]

31-Mar-09 Morgan Stanley [7.56%] Amazon.com, Inc. [7.48%] Apollo Group, Inc. [7.17%] Best Buy Inc [6.25%] Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. [6.15%] Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. [5.81%] Teva Pharmaceutical Industries [5.75%] Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. [5.53%] CVS Caremark Corporation [5.27%] Abbott Laboratories [5.18%]

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Latest News on CGM Focus (CGMFX)

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A Hedge Fund Lesson for the Rest of Us (at Seeking Alpha) CGM Investors Hoping Heebner's New Holdings Drive Turnaround (Indie Research) What's Next for Heebner and CGM? (Indie Research) Who's Smarter: Vanguard or Fidelity Investors? (Morningstar.com) See more news on CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX)

  

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