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Emerging Growth Fund – Share Class A
All information on this page is as of 06-17-2013 unless otherwise noted.
Ticker WEMAX
CUSIP 949921720
NAV $14.43
$ Change $0.22
% Change 1.55%
YTD Return 18.86%
Inception Date 01-31-2007
Net Fund Assets as of 05-31-2013$948,625,288.81
Fund Notes
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Net Asset Value (NAV) as of 06-17-2013 – Share Class A
NAV $14.43
$ Change $0.22
% Change 1.55%
Cumulative & Annualized Total Returns 1 – Share Class A
   Annualized Total Returns 
Performance Type   Last 3 Months   Year To Date   1-Year   3-Year   5-Year   10-Year   Since Inception
NAV as of 05-31-2013 8.71% 16.14% 19.89% 19.00% 7.64%  6.61%
POP as of 05-31-2013 2.46% 9.47% 13.00% 16.68% 6.38%  5.62%
POP as of 03-31-2013 6.44% 6.44% -0.23% 14.56% 7.71%  5.29%

Figures quoted represent past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value of an investment will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than their original cost. Performance shown without sales charges would be lower if sales charges were reflected. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted and assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains.

Public offering price (POP) is the price of one share of a fund including any sales charges. Net asset value (NAV) is the value of one share of the fund excluding any sales charges. Had sales charges been included, performance would be lower. Returns for periods of less than one year are not annualized.

For Class A shares, the maximum front-end sales charge is 5.75%. Performance including sales charge assumes the sales charge for the corresponding time period.


Expenses – Share Class A
Net Expense Ratio
effective since 10-01-2012
1.37%
 
Gross Expense Ratio 1.42%

The adviser has committed, through 9-30-2013, to waive fees and/or reimburse expenses to maintain the Fund's contractual expense cap at 1.37%, including underlying master portfolio fees and expenses, but excluding certain other expenses. Without these reductions, the Fund's returns would have been lower, and the rankings and ratings may have been lower.


Commissions & Breakpoints  (Excludes no-load share classes.) Click here to view
Morningstar Rating 2 – Share Class A   Lipper Total Return Rankings – Share Class A
Based on risk-adjusted returns as of 05-31-2013
Category Small Growth
Overall (out of 633 funds)
3-Year (out of 633 funds)
5-Year (out of 567 funds)
10-Year (out of 367 funds)N/A

The Overall Morningstar Rating for a fund is derived from a weighted-average of the performance figures associated with its three-, five- and ten-year (if applicable) ratings.

 
as of 05-31-2013
Category Lipper Small-Cap Growth Funds
1 - Year 463 out of 508
3 - Year 93 out of 446
5 - Year 164 out of 400

Lipper rankings do not include the effects of sales charges. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.


Benchmark Returns3,4 as of 05-31-2013
   Average Annual Total Returns 
Performance Type   Last 3 Months   Year To Date      1-Year         3-Year         5-Year         10-Year   
Lipper Small-Cap Growth Funds Average 8.39% 16.24% 26.36% 16.29% 6.84% 9.31%
Russell 2000 Growth Index 9.71% 18.17% 30.86% 17.46% 7.69% 9.90%
Calendar Year Returns1 – Share Class A
Calendar Year Return

Does not include sales charges, and assumes reinvestment of dividends and capital gains.

 

1 Class A and Class C shares incepted on 03-31-08. Performance shown reflects the performance of the Investor Class shares, which incepted on 1-31-07, and includes expenses that are not applicable to and are higher than Class A shares and lower than Class C shares. Investor Class annual returns are substantially similar to what the Class A and Class C annual returns would be because the shares are invested in the same portfolio of securities and differ only to the extent that the classes do not have the same expenses.

2 Please note, Morningstar provides an extended performance rating for some mutual funds in its universe. Share classes that don’t have a 1, 3-, 5-, or 10-year performance history may receive a hypothetical Morningstar Rating based on the oldest surviving share class of the fund. Morningstar computes the funds’ new return stream by appending an adjusted return history of the oldest share class and the extended performance rating is determined by comparing the adjusted-historical returns to the current open-end mutual fund universe. For each fund with at least a three-year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating based on a Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund’s monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees, unless otherwise indicated), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive five stars, the next 22.5% receive four stars, the next 35% receive three stars, the next 22.5% receive two stars, and the bottom 10% receive one star. (Each share class is counted as a fraction of one fund within this scale and is rated separately, which may cause slight variations in the distribution percentages.) Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

3 The Lipper Small-Cap Growth Funds Average is an average of funds that invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market capitalizations (on a three year weighted basis) of less than 250% of the dollar-weighted median market capitalization of the smallest 500 of the middle 1,000 securities of the S&P SuperComposite 1500 Index. These funds typically have an above-average price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-book ratio and three year sales-per-share growth value, compared to the S&P SmallCap 600 Index. The total return of the Lipper Average does not include the effect of sales charges. You cannot invest directly in a Lipper Average.

4 Russell 2000® Growth Index measures the performance of those Russell 2000 companies with higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. You cannot invest directly in an index.


 

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