Rydex Basic Materials
Historical Performance
Objective And Strategy
ObjectiveCapital appreciation.
StrategyInvests in companies engaged in mining, manufacturing and sales of basic materials (i.e., lumber, steel, chemicals). Aims to create a liquid Portfolio of stocks and to be fully invested at all times. Uses a quantitative approach, continuously monitoring the Portfolio. Stocks are added or deleted based on market capitalization, liquidity and correlation relative to the entire industry sector.
Tax Inefficient Fund
Asset classes that make large ordinary income distributions or generate significant short term capital gains are tax inefficient. Asset classes that match this description include REITs, commodities funds and absolute return funds.
Principle Risks
N/A
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Natural Resource Equity05/2001