RS Core Growth Portfolio



Strategy Attributes

  • Portfolio of advantaged and growing businesses run by strong management teams, purchased at attractive valuations.
  • Disciplined investment process seeks to identify a company's structural, competitive and economic advantages.
  • Rigorous valuation methodology applied using discounted cash flow and scenario-based analysis to determine business value and optimal entry points.
  • Investment team with, on average, more than 15 years of investment industry experience leverages cumulative knowledge, insight, and judgment.
  • High conviction, long-term investment horizon results in portfolio of 20 – 30 companies.


  • Historical
  • Long Term
  • As of Latest:
  • Month-End
  • Quarter-End
Month-End Performance as of 12/31/11
  1 Year 3 Year 5 Year Since Inception 3/31/06
RS Core Growth Portfolio Gross of Fees Net of Fees 3.48%
2.37%
15.44%
14.38%
1.89%
0.99%
4.24%
3.32%
S&P 500® Index1 2.11% 14.11% -0.25% 1.63%
Quarter-End Performance as of 12/31/11
  1 Year 3 Year 5 Year Since Inception 3/31/06
RS Core Growth Portfolio Gross of Fees Net of Fees 3.48%
2.37%
15.44%
14.38%
1.89%
0.99%
4.24%
3.32%
S&P 500® Index1 2.11% 14.11% -0.25% 1.63%
Historical Performance (Results Net of Fees)
*Since Inception: 3/31/06

  Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Calendar Year
2006    0.75%* 6.92% 6.65% 14.88%*
2007 1.46% 8.45% -0.31% -4.38% 4.89%
2008 -7.90% -4.44% -3.05% -21.57% -33.07%
2009 -10.32% 20.84% 17.33%  5.82%  34.54%
2010 4.82%  -12.39%  11.10%   6.48%   8.63%
2011 3.21%  2.51%  -12.50%   10.58%   2.37%

Performance quoted represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.

Communications

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RS Core Growth Portfolio Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2010 Q4 2011
         
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Portfolio Holdings
         
 
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Portfolio Facts

Inception 3/31/06
AUM (as of 12/31/11) $176,338,153
1 The S&P 500® Index is an unmanaged market capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries. Index results assume the reinvestment of dividends paid on the stocks constituting the index. You may not invest in the index, and, unlike the Fund, the index does not incur fees and expenses.
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