Investors' Recent Appreciation for Dreyfus Appreciation Is Well Deserved
One of this offering's most-distinctive traits is its low, low turnover ratio. Although recent trades caused the fund's turnover to rise in 2010 (to a still small 29%), the fund has more regularly run a single-digit turnover rate. In fact, turnover ranged from 1% to 8% from 2000 to 2009. The small amount of trading indicates that the fund's managers maintain a long-term investment horizon, but the low turnover has other benefits, including minimal brokerage commissions and other implicit trading costs as well as fewer capital gains distributions. Low turnover, however, shouldn't’t suggest a passive, or indexlike, strategy. Although most of the fund's holdings are S&P 500 Index constituents, the fund's active share, which measures how differentiated a fund is from a benchmark, is a more-than-respectable 67.88%. The management achieves this in a couple of ways. One, it owns out-of-index names, including a generally 10% to 15% stake in foreign stocks, such as
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Confidence in the economy, strong earnings, and inflows into equities from bond funds have been enough to push indexes to new highs on an almost daily basis even if light volume and slight gains show investors are not making aggressive moves.