Mutual Fund Insights: Osterweis Fund (OSTFX)

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Last Trade: $24.96 on 3/11/2010, Change: +0.07 (0.28%)

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Fund Manager - John S. Osterweis

Fund Manager Tenure: 16.5 years
Fundmojo Fund Grade: B (Score: 0.66)     (What does this score mean?)

Osterweis has served as president, chief investment officer, director and portfolio manager of Osterweis Capital Management, Inc. since April 1983 and president, chief investment officer and portfolio manager of Osterweis Capital Management, LLC since March 1997.He has over thirty years of securities analysis and portfolio management experience, twenty-three of which have been with Osterweis Capital Management, Inc.  Get more insights on John S. Osterweis

  

 What we like about Osterweis Fund (OSTFX)

Data for Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) as of January 31, 2010

• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) management has been with Osterweis Fund for 16.5 years
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return -3.07% vs -6.52% Mid-Cap Blend category average)
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) has good Long-term performance (5-year return 3.00% vs 1.32% Mid-Cap Blend category average)
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) ratio of up-years vs down years is greater than 2
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) has a Morningstar rating of 4 and above
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) is less volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 14.7, lower than category average of 24.11
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) has a lower management fee than its Mid-Cap Blend average: 1.23% vs 1.38%
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) is a true no-load fund as it has no load and no 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

  

 What we are cautious about Osterweis Fund (OSTFX)

Data for Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) as of January 31, 2010

• Osterweis Fund is a focused fund with 41.59% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) has a less-than-ideal short-term performance (1-year return 28.95% vs 42.02% Mid-Cap Blend category average)
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) is less safe compared to its Mid-Cap Blend peers
• Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) does not have a good risk adjusted return as its 3-year Alpha of 0.98 is worse than category average of 2.72, and its 3-year Sharpe ratio is -0.27

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Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
01/2010	$906.25M
11/2009	$809.33M
10/2009	$751.46M

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Osterweis Fund (OSTFX) Portfolio Allocation

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Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
09/2009	21.15%	70.79%	1.89%	6.17%
06/2009	22.88%	69.54%	2.56%	5.03%
03/2009	27.94%	57.76%	5.88%	8.41%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Osterweis Fund (OSTFX)

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30-Sep-09 Federated US Treasury Cash Reserves I [14.92%] Bayer AG ADR [3.17%] AGILENT TECH INC [3.11%] VeriSign, Inc. [3.1%] SAFEWAY STORES INC [2.95%] DIAGEO PLC ADS NEW [2.87%] CROWN HOLDINGS INC [2.86%] REPUBLIC SVCS INC [2.7%] HEALTHSOUTH CP [2.66%] NESTLE N ORD [2.65%]

30-Jun-09 Federated US Treasury Cash Reserves I [18.58%] REPUBLIC SVCS INC [3.19%] AMERICAN WTR WRKS CO [2.99%] AGILENT TECH INC [2.92%] AT&T INC. [2.84%] VeriSign, Inc. [2.74%] MCGRAW HILL COS THE [2.74%] UNILEVER N V N Y [2.73%] VALEANT PHARMA INTL [2.65%] HEALTHSOUTH CP [2.58%]

31-Mar-09 CROWN HOLDINGS INC [3.27%] JOHNSON AND JOHNS DC [3.05%] DIAGEO PLC ADS NEW [2.8%] AT&T INC. [2.8%] REPUBLIC SVCS INC [2.78%] TRIAN ACQ I CORP [2.69%] Nestle [2.55%] LABORATORY CORP NEW [2.54%] ENTERPRISE PT UTS [2.45%] UNILEVER N V N Y [2.43%]

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