IA Clarington American Fund A

Quick Facts

NAVPS (2/3/2012) $4.84

Distribution Frequency: Annually


MER: 06/30/2011 2.49%*

Fund Numbers:


Front Back Low Series F
$Cdn 202 1302 1502 1402
 

Key reasons to invest

  • McLean Budden features long-tenured management team.
  • Conservative growth style mandate results in a focused but diversified portfolio.
  • Concentrates its holdings in approximately 40 to 50 issuers.

Investment Approach

The fund manager employs a bottom-up philosophy based on an assigned value within each asset class, while minimizing volatility. Securities are selected based on stable earnings growth with sound balance sheets, strong management teams and growing overall market share.

 

Portfolio Sub-Advisor

McLean Budden Limited

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Portfolio Manager

  • Established in 1947 and managing $31 billion (as of Jan, 2009) for Canadian investors from offices in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, McLean Budden is one of Canada's oldest investment counselling firms.
  • They place a priority on building a team of well-educated experts with an average of 15 years of industry experience.

Inception Date: 1/4/2000

Net Assets: $49,634,197

Compound Annual Returns (%) as at 12/31/2011

1 month3 months6 months1 year3 years5 years10 yearsInception
0.58.9-3.3-4.02.4-5.5-4.8-

Calendar Year Returns (%)

2010200920082007200620052004200320022001
2.29.6-24.9-6.812.9-0.7-2.1-0.3-25.6 -

Asset Mix

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Geographic Allocation

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Sector Allocation

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Top Ten Holdings

Merck & Co., Inc.4.0 %
Exxon Mobil Corp.3.5 %
Pfizer Inc.3.5 %
ACE Ltd.3.5 %
Microsoft Corp.3.4 %
JPMorgan Chase & Co.3.4 %
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.3.3 %
Pepsico Inc.2.9 %
Apache Corp.2.9 %
Hewlett-Packard Co.2.8 %
33.2 %
Portfolio information above as at: 12/31/2011 12:00:00 AM

On December 31, 2001, the R American Fund underwent a merger that was a material change for the Fund under applicable securities laws. As such, in accordance with such laws, we may only disclose performance for periods after December 31, 2001.Mutual funds are not guaranteed, their values change frequently and past performance may not be repeated.

*IA Clarington Investments Inc., manager of the IA Clarington American Fund A (the "Fund"), currently waives some of its management fees or absorbs some expenses that would normally be charged to the Fund. This is done at the manager’s discretion, and may continue for an indeterminate period of time but may also be terminated at any time. The management expense ratio ("MER") for this series of the Fund published above is calculated after waivers and absorptions have been taken into account, using information available from the interim period ending 06/30/2011. The actual MER of the this series of the Fund before waivers and or absorptions is 2.79%
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