| Net Asset Value (NAV)
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$17.11 |
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| $ Change |
$-0.28 |
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| % Change |
-1.61% |
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| Morningstar Rating
2 Share Class A |
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Lipper Total Return Rankings
Share Class A
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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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| 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 Class A, Class B, and Class C shares incepted on November 30, 2000. Performance shown prior to April 11, 2005, for the Class A, Class B, and Class C shares reflects the performance of the Class A, Class B, and Class C shares, respectively, of the Strong Advisor Common Stock Fund, the predecessor fund, adjusted to reflect Class A, Class B, and Class C sales charges, as applicable. Performance shown prior to the inception of Class A, Class B, and Class C reflects the performance of the Class Z shares of the predecessor fund, adjusted to reflect Class A, Class B, and Class C sales charges and expenses, as applicable. 2 Please note, some of the Morningstar proprietary calculations, including the Morningstar Rating, are not customarily calculated based on adjusted historical returns; however, in some cases, the investment's independent Morningstar Rating metric is compared against the retail mutual fund universe breakpoints to determine its hypothetical rating. The evaluation of this investment does not affect the retail mutual fund data published by Morningstar. 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 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. 4 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.
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