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Growth Investing vs Value Investing

When you invest for growth, you are usually seeking capital appreciation over the long term. You will most likely choose investments that you feel will exhibit a faster-than-average increase in share price over the coming years. Growth stocks have the potential to outperform slower-growing investments, like income stocks, because gains are typically reinvested in the company to accomplish further growth instead of distributed to shareholders as a dividend. Growth stocks may be volatile. One way to minimize the impact of that volatility on your portfolio is to buy shares of a growth mutual fund. You'll enjoy immediate diversification (though diversification alone cannot ensure a profit or ensure against a loss). And an actively-managed mutual fund also offers professional management expertise.

A value investor looks for bargains, and chooses investments that have low prices in relation to such factors as earnings, sales, net current assets, and the book value of the issuing companies. A value investor may turn down a popular blue chip stock because the price per share is too high, although the issuing company is stable and has a record of steady growth. Instead, the value investor seeks to buy stock of a solid company that is briefly out of favor or bargain priced for some other reason. In doing so, the value investor predicts that the share price will eventually return to a higher level when the stock comes back into favor, and the market drives the stock price back up. A mutual fund manager may focus on growth investing, value investing, or some combination.

Note: Before investing in a mutual fund, carefully consider its investment objectives, risks, fees, and expenses, which are included in the prospectus available from the fund. Read it carefully before investing.

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