Davidson Investment Advisors Launches First Mutual Fund.Clients Now Investing in New Fund with Multi-Cap Focus GREAT FALLS Great Falls, city (1990 pop. 55,097), seat of Cascade co., N central Mont., second largest city in the state, at the confluence of the Missouri and Sun rivers and near the falls that give the city its name; inc. 1888. , Mont. -- Davidson Investment Advisors Investment Advisor 1. A person making investment recommendations in return for a flat fee or percentage of assets managed, known as a commission. 2. For mutual fund companies, it is the individual who has the day-to-day responsibility of investing and monitoring the cash and , a Montana-based money management firm, today announced that it has launched the Davidson Multi-Cap Core Fund under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors DFMAX. The fund is managed by the company's experienced investment management team and is expected to be the first of several mutual funds offered by the firm. "We are very pleased to be able to make this fund available to investors at a time when broad diversification Diversification A risk management technique that mixes a wide variety of investments within a portfolio. It is designed to minimize the impact of any one security on overall portfolio performance. Notes: Diversification is possibly the greatest way to reduce the risk. and consistent returns have become imperative," said Andrew Davidson, President of Davidson Investment Advisors. "The mutual fund's management style is aligned with one of our firm's four investment strategies: the Multi-Cap Core Strategy. The fund seeks to provide diversified investment coverage across a wide range of market capitalizations Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. and investment styles." The Davidson Multi-Cap Core Fund is suited for investors seeking broad stock market exposure with a strong emphasis on fundamental research and risk management. Information about the fund can be found at www.davidsonmutualfunds.com Davidson Investment Advisors, a registered investment adviser, has managed money for individuals, corporations, employee benefit plans, foundations and trusts for 33 years, providing a team approach to portfolio management. The firm offers five investment strategies, managed under a long-term approach by a group of experienced professionals. The firm is based in Great Falls, Montana Great Falls is a city located in Cascade County, Montana, United States. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,690. It is the county seat of Cascade CountyGR6 , with offices in Seattle and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Davidson Investment Advisors is a subsidiary of Davidson Companies, an employee-owned financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. holding company that recently celebrated surpassing the 1,000-employee mark. Davidson Companies is based in Montana and operates from offices in 17 states, with a strong footprint in the West and Midwest. Also part of the Davidson Companies family are D.A. Davidson & Co, the largest full-service brokerage based in the Northwest; Davidson Trust Co., a trust and wealth management company; Davidson Fixed Income Management, a registered investment adviser providing wealth management and other fixed income services to mostly institutional clients; and Davidson Travel, a full-service travel agency. The fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses must be considered carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other important information about the fund and may be obtained by calling The Davidson Funds at 877-332-0529. Please read it carefully before investing. Mutual fund investing involves risk. Principal loss is possible. Small- and Medium-capitalized companies tend to have limited liquidity and greater price volatility than large-capitalization companies. Growth stocks typically are more volatile than value stocks Value stocks Stocks with low price/book ratios or price/earnings ratios. Historically, value stocks have enjoyed higher average returns than growth stocks (stocks with high price/book or P/E ratios) in a variety of countries. ; however, value stocks have a lower expected growth rate in earnings and sales. The Fund invests in foreign securities which involve greater volatility and political, economic and currency risks and differences in accounting methods. Because the fund may invest in ETFs, it is subject to additional risks that do not apply to conventional mutual funds, including the risks that the market price of an ETF's shares may trade at a discount to its net asset value ("NAV See navigation system and navigation bar. "), an active secondary trading market may not develop or be maintained, or trading may be halted by the exchange in which they trade, which may impact a fund's ability to sell its shares. The fund will bear its share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds. Shareholders will pay higher expenses than would be the case if making direct investments in the underlying ETFs. The fund may also use options and future contracts, which have the risks of unlimited losses of the underlying holdings due to unanticipated market movements and failure to correctly predict the direction of securities prices, interest rates and currency exchange rates. The investment in options is not suitable for all investors. Davidson Investment Advisors is the advisor for the Davidson Funds which are distributed by Quasar Distributors, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . 10/2008 |
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