News on AMG Yacktman Service Fund (YACKX)
Wednesday April 25th 2018
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Scoreboard Stephen Yacktman is officially on a stock-buying strike in the U.S. “We’ve been willing before to go down with the ship and say, ‘We’re not going to invest your money,’ ” the co-manager of the AMG Yacktman fund says. The fund has experienced $1.2 billion in outflows in the past year as its 13.2% return in that period has trailed the market by 3.5 percentage points, and its fully invested peers, by 1.9 points. Managers used to hold cash to handle redemptions, but now they can use exchange-traded funds as a liquidity tool—making the decision to hold cash more about investing strategy than fund administration, says Russel Kinnel, Morningstar’s director of manager research.

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These funds could be well positioned to outperform when growth stocks take a back seat to steadier fare.

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These managers still put a lot of emphasis on traditional techniques to beat the broad market.
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