Mutual Fund Insights: Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX)

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See Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

Last Trade: $4.15 on 3/19/2010, Change: 0.00 (0%)

  

Fund Manager - Rajendra Prasad, M.D.

Fund Manager Tenure: 11.3 years
Fundmojo Fund Grade: D (Score: 0.41)     (What does this score mean?)

Prasad is a physician in private practice. He personally was registered as an investment advisor under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 from 1992 until 1998 and has managed accounts of individual investors since 1996. From 1993 to 1999 he published a monthly newsletter, "The Mutual Fund Leader," which sought to guide investor in selecting mutual funds.  Get more insights on Rajendra Prasad, M.D.

  

 What we like about Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX)

Data for Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) as of January 31, 2010

• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) management has been with Prasad Growth Fund for 11.3 years
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return -0.76% vs -6.17% World Stock category average)
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) is a true no-load fund as it has no load and no 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

  

 What we are cautious about Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX)

Data for Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) as of January 31, 2010

• Prasad Growth Fund is a focused fund with 36.47% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) has a less-than-ideal short-term performance (1-year return -11.87% vs 40.69% World Stock category average)
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) has a less-than-ideal Long-term performance (5-year return -0.53% vs 2.47% World Stock category average)
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) ratio of up-years vs down years can be improved
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) has a Morningstar rating of 3 and below
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) is less safe compared to its World Stock peers
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) is more volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 25.09 that is higher than category average of 22.99
• Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) has a higher management fee of 2.07% than its World Stock average of 1.53%

See Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

  

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Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
01/2010	$610.00K
11/2009	$590.00K
10/2009	$620.00K

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Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX) Portfolio Allocation

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Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
09/2009	63.06%	36.94%	0%	0%
06/2009	99.21%	0.79%	0%	0%
03/2009	3.87%	121.48%	0%	0%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Prasad Growth Fund (PRGRX)

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30-Sep-09 Lihir Gold, Limited [8.34%] IncrediMail Ltd. [5.63%] Broadpoint Gleacher Securities [5.55%] Sterlite Inds India [5.32%] Perfect World Co., Ltd. [2.4%] China Natural Gas, Inc. [2.02%] China Housing & Land Developmen [1.92%] TIANYIN PHARMACEUTCL [1.89%] China Natural Resources, Inc. [1.74%] AsiaInfo Holdings, Inc. [1.66%]

30-Jun-09 Direxion Daily Financial Bear 3X Shares [4.8%] Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3X Shares [4.25%] SPDRs [0.34%] WEYERHAEUSER CO [0.16%] Novellus Systems, Inc. [0.14%] Avy Oct 09 Put 22.50 [0.12%] FOREST OIL CP (NEW) [0.1%] OSHKOSH CP [0.1%] LEUCADIA NATL CP [0.09%] EXCO RESOURCES INC [0.04%]

31-Mar-09 Myriad Genetics, Inc. [9.4%] First Solar, Inc. [9.14%] CME Group Inc. [8.49%] Research in Motion, Ltd. [7.42%] American Italian Pasta Company [5.4%] TERRA NITR CO LP [4.93%] Yamana Gold, Inc. [4.78%] NetEase.com, Inc. [4.62%] AEROPOSTALE INC [4.57%] Apple Inc. [4.53%]

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