| Net Asset Value (NAV)
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$17.47 |
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| $ Change |
$-0.28 |
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| % Change |
-1.58% |
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| Morningstar Rating
2 Share Class Investor |
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Lipper Total Return Rankings
Share Class Investor
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| Benchmark Returns3,4 as of 07-31-2010 |
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Average Annual Total Returns
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Last 3 Months |
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Year To Date |
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10-Year |
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| Russell 2500 Index | | -8.01% | | 5.23% | | 21.77% | | -4.00% | | 1.20% | | 5.14% |  |  |  | | Lipper Mid-Cap Core Funds Average | | -7.65% | | 3.32% | | 19.26% | | -5.54% | | 0.80% | | 3.15% |  |  |  |
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Calendar Year Returns1
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Does not include sales charges, and assumes reinvestment of dividends and capital gains.
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1 Investor Class shares incepted on December 29, 1989. Effective June 20, 2008, Class Z was renamed Investor Class and modified to assume the features and attributes of the Investor Class. 2 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), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. The top 10% of funds in each category receive 5 stars, the next 22.5% receive 4 stars, the next 35% receive 3 stars, the next 22.5% receive 2 stars and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. (Each share class is counted as a fraction of one fund within this scale and rated separately, which may cause slight variations in the distribution percentages.) Past performance is no guarantee of future results. 3 The Lipper Mid-Cap Core Funds Average is an average of funds which invest at least 75% of their equity assets in companies with market capitalizations (on a three-year weighted basis) of less than 300% of the dollar weighted median market capitalization of the middle 1,000 securities of the S&P SuperComposite 1500 Index. These funds typically have an average price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-book ratio, and three-year sales-per-share growth value, compared to the S&P MidCap 400 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 2500TM Index measures the performance of the 2,500 smallest companies in the Russell 3000® Index, which represents approximately 16% of the total market capitalization of the Russell 3000 Index. You cannot invest directly in an index.
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