Thomas Ognar - Emerging Growth Fund Manager
| WFGDX Fund | USD 9.86 0.08 0.80% |
Thomas Ognar is a managing director and senior portfolio manager for the Heritage Growth Equity team at Wells Capital Management. Tom has oversight and portfolio management responsibility for the teams Small Capitalization, All Capitalization and Large Capitalization Growth portfolios. He joined Wells Capital Management with the acquisition of assets from Strong Capital Management. Tom entered the investment industry in 1993 and joined Strong in 1998 as a research analyst. Prior to Strong, he was a research analyst with MI Investment Management, Inc. and a trader with Republic Securities, Inc. Tom earned a bachelors degree in finance from Miami University. He earned a masters degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is an alumnus of the Applied Security Analysis Program. Tom has earned the right to use the CFA designation.
| Phone | 800-222-8222 |
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Emerging Growth Leadership Team
Elected by the shareholders, the Emerging Growth's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Emerging Growth inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Emerging. The board's role is to monitor Emerging Growth's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Emerging Growth's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Emerging Growth's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
| Thomas Ognar, Fund Manager | ||
| Bruce Olson, Fund Manager |
Emerging Fund Performance Indicators
The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right mutual fund is not an easy task. Is Emerging Growth a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.
| Price To Earning | 37.17 X | ||||
| Price To Book | 4.28 X | ||||
| Price To Sales | 2.43 X | ||||
| Total Asset | 16.65 M | ||||
| Year To Date Return | 5.88 % | ||||
| One Year Return | 6.76 % | ||||
| Three Year Return | (8.99) % | ||||
| Five Year Return | 5.27 % | ||||
| Ten Year Return | 14.08 % | ||||
| Net Asset | 311.92 M |
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