Mutual Fund Insights: Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX)

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See Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

Last Trade: $4.80 on 3/18/2010, Change: -0.01 (-0.21%)

  

Fund Manager - Doug Noland

Fund Manager Tenure: 1.2 years   [Similar Funds: PBRIX ]
Fundmojo Fund Grade: N/A (Score: Manager deploys a bear strategy)     (What does this score mean?)

Noland joined Federated in December 2008. Prior, he was employed with David Tice & Associates, Inc. where he served as an assistant portfolio manager and strategist from January 1999. From 1990 through 1998, Mr. Noland worked as a trader, portfolio manager and analyst for short-biased hedge funds including G. W. Ringoen & Associates from January 1990 to September 1996, Fleckenstein Capital from September 1996 to March 1997 and East Shore Partners, Inc. from October 1997 to December 1998.  Get more insights on Doug Noland

  

 What we like about Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX)

Data for Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) as of January 31, 2010

• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) has good short-term performance (1-year return -22.69% vs -37.50% Bear Market category average)
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return 5.55% vs -8.30% Bear Market category average)
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) has good Long-term performance (5-year return 5.02% vs -6.94% Bear Market category average)
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) ratio of up-years vs down years is greater than 2
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) has an annual stock turnover rate of 392.00% vs Bear Market average of 519.23%. It is good that Federated Prudent Bear C management does not trade extensively for its return.
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) is less volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 16.98, lower than category average of 30.28

  

 What we are cautious about Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX)

Data for Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) as of January 31, 2010

• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) management has been with Federated Prudent Bear C Fund for only 1.2 years, it is hard to judge manager's ability based on this fund's operation record
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund is a focused fund with 31.18% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) has a higher management fee of 2.53% than its Bear Market average of 2.01%
• Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) carries a 1% load

See Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

  

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Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
01/2010	$128.09M
11/2009	$118.41M
10/2009	$110.31M

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Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX) Portfolio Allocation

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Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
09/2009	95.21%	4.75%	0%	0.04%
06/2009	96.59%	3.18%	0%	0.24%
03/2009	96.09%	3.5%	0%	0.41%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Federated Prudent Bear C Fund (PBRCX)

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30-Sep-09 SPDRs [22.47%] Federated US Treasury Cash Reserves I [8.07%] YUM BRANDS INC [0.93%] BURGER KING HOLDINGS [0.92%] SYSCO CP [0.91%] Staples, Inc. [0.91%] VERIZON COMMUN [0.89%] Hologic, Inc. [0.89%] HOME DEPOT INC [0.87%] BARD C R INC [0.83%]

30-Jun-09 SPDRs [16.73%] Federated US Treasury Cash Reserves I [8.49%] Comcast Corporation [0.74%] MASTERCARD INC [0.74%] I T T EDUCATION SVCS [0.73%] BURGER KING HOLDINGS [0.72%] VERIZON COMMUN [0.72%] DARDEN RESTAURANTS [0.72%] HOME DEPOT INC [0.71%] PITNEY BOWES INC [0.7%]

31-Mar-09 Yamana Gold, Inc. [0.38%] Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd [0.38%] Lam Research Corporation [0.32%] Randgold Resources Limited [0.32%] Goldcorp Inc (New) [0.32%] Sara Lee Corp. [0.3%] Compania de Minas Buenaventura [0.28%] Newmont Mining Corp. (Holding C [0.28%] Applied Materials, Inc. [0.28%] Silverstone Resources Corp [0.27%]

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