There are 6 main balanced mutual funds. They are conservative allocation, moderate allocation, aggressive allocation, world allocation, convertibles, and target date portfolio. The conservative allocation fund objective is to provide income and capital growth through investment in equities, fixed incomes, and cash. This balanced fund has higher assets in bond portion than in stock portion.
Best Performing Funds
These top performer conservative allocation funds are sorted based on its performance in 2012. The last update on this list was done on 6/8/2012. These best performers do not have a sales load. You can find the fund review below as well.
The YTD top performer No Load Conservative Allocation Mutual Funds of 2012 are:
- IMS Strategic Income (IMSIX)
- USAA Growth and Tax Strategy (USBLX)
- Teberg (TEBRX)
- VALIC Company II Cnsrv Gr Lifestyle (VCGLX)
- Toews Hedged Growth Allocation (THGWX)
- TCW Global Conservative Allocation N (TGPNX)
- Vanguard Tax-Managed Balanced Adm (VTMFX)
- Sector Rotation Fund (NAVFX)
This IMS Strategic Income fund objective is to seek income and capital growth. It uses its assets to purchase corporate bonds, government bonds, dividend paying common stocks, preferred, convertible, income trusts, money market and cash equivalent. Carl W. Marker is the fund manager. It has an expense ratio of 1.95% per year. The last 12 month yield is 10.1%.
This balanced fund has a year to date return of 5.92%. The 5 year average return is -2.89%. Morningstar has rated it with 3 stars rating. You can buy this fund with $5,000 initial investment for brokerage or IRA account.