Mutual Fund Insights: Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX)

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See Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

Last Trade: $12.90 on 3/18/2010, Change: 0.00 (0%)

  

Fund Manager - John S. Orrico

Fund Manager Tenure: 9.5 years   [Similar Funds: ARBNX ]
Fundmojo Fund Grade: A (Score: 0.74)     (What does this score mean?)

Orrico is president and portfolio manager with Water Island Capital. Prior to Water Island, he managed private hedge funds with Lindemann Capital Partners, L.P. during 1999. From 1994 to 1998, Orrico engaged in mergers and acquisition arbitrage while managing the Gruss Family Trust for Gruss & Co. Orrico holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  Get more insights on John S. Orrico

  

 What we like about Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX)

Data for Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) as of January 31, 2010

• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) management has been with Arbitrage R Fund for 9.5 years
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) has good mid-term performance (3-year return 5.11% vs -2.05% Long-Short category average)
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) has good Long-term performance (5-year return 4.68% vs 1.81% Long-Short category average)
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) has a Morningstar rating of 4 and above
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) is less volatile than its peers as it has a 3-year Standard Deviation of 5.28, lower than category average of 10.49
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) has a lower management fee than its Long-Short average: 1.70% vs 2.07%

  

 What we are cautious about Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX)

Data for Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) as of January 31, 2010

• Arbitrage R Fund is a focused fund with 31.77% of the portfolio on top 10 securities. This tends to produce more volatility compared to a diversified fund. See fund top 10 holdings.
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) has a less-than-ideal short-term performance (1-year return 8.95% vs 11.69% Long-Short category average)
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) ratio of up-years vs down years can be improved
• Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) is less safe compared to its Long-Short peers
• Even though Arbitrage R Fund carries no load, it does have a 0.25% of 12b1 promotion, distributions, marketing expenses

See Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) performance details as of January 31, 2010

  

  

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Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) Net Asset

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Date	Net Asset
01/2010	$499.36M
11/2009	$338.62M
10/2009	$313.03M

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Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX) Portfolio Allocation

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Date	Cash	Stock	Bond	Other
10/2009	31.35%	66.68%	0%	1.97%
06/2009	29.61%	67.75%	0%	2.64%
02/2009	55.3%	64.19%	0%	0.16%

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Most Recent Top 10 Holdings in Arbitrage R Fund (ARBFX)

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31-Oct-09 Perot Systems Corporation [3.94%] Schering-Plough Corporation [3.87%] Liberty Media Corporation [3.86%] Marvel Enterprises, Inc. [3.66%] [3.22%] PEPSI BOTTLING GRP [3.18%] Avocent Corporation [2.6%] BJ SERVICES CO [2.52%] Natco Group, Inc. [2.52%] PEPSIAMERICAS INC [2.4%]

30-Jun-09 Metavante Technologies, Inc. [3.63%] Embarq Corporation [3.44%] CHINA SECURITY [2.92%] Centex Corporation [2.9%] LINDSAY CORPORATION [2.87%] Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. [2.81%] NATCO GROUP INC [2.79%] Addax Petroleum Corporation [2.61%] Petro-Canada [2.46%] Schering-Plough Corporation [2.41%]

28-Feb-09 Interwoven, Inc. [4.58%] Thinkorswim Group, Inc. [3.46%] Unibanco - Uniao De Bancos Brasileiros Sa Adr [3.46%] Embarq Corporation [3.32%] Wyeth Ltd. [3%] Provident Bankshares Corporation [2.62%] Centennial Communications Corpo [2.5%] Pharmanet Development Group, Inc. [1.88%] Nova Chemicals Corp [1.87%] Forsys Metals Corp. [1.85%]

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