{"id":98,"date":"2006-02-19T14:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/?p=98"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T17:10:57","slug":"naic-growth-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/2006\/02\/19\/naic-growth-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIC Growth Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always helpful to compare portfolios.  Here are summary dashboards for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naicgrowthfund.com\/\">NAIC Growth Fund<\/a> and for the Moose Pond Investors portfolios.  The NAIC Growth Fund is a closed end fund that was intended to demonstrate NAIC principles.  You can click on either summary below for the complete dashboard.  <\/p>\n<p>In the past 6 months NAIC growth fund sold its position in Pepsi and Newell Rubbermaid.  The fund added to its positions in Abbot Labs, Carlisle Companies, Jack Henry &#038; Associates, Medtronic, Stryker, and Washington Mutual.  The total return for the NAIC Growth Fund in 2005, based on change in net asset value, was 1.3% (slightly ahead of our return of 0.3).  <\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; width: 100%;\" border=\"0\"\n cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"2\"><\/p>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td\n style=\"vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap; text-align: center; font-weight: bold;\">NAIC<br \/>\nGrowth Fund<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: bold;\" align=\"center\"\n nowrap=\"nowrap\" valign=\"middle\">Moose Pond Investors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"\n valign=\"middle\"><a\n href=\"http:\/\/www.manifestinvesting.com\/dashboard\/1222\"><img decoding=\"async\"\n style=\"border: 2px solid ; width: 170px; height: 157px;\"\n alt=\"NAIC Growth Fund\"\n title=\"NAIC Growth Fund (as of June 2005)\"\n src=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/files\/img\/grw_20060219.png\"><\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" nowrap=\"nowrap\"\n valign=\"middle\"><a\n href=\"http:\/\/www.manifestinvesting.com\/dashboard\/40\"><img decoding=\"async\"\n style=\"border: 2px solid ; width: 170px; height: 155px;\"\n alt=\"NAIC Growth Fund\" title=\"Moose Pond (current)\"\n src=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/files\/img\/mp_20060219.png\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>While quality is about the same in both portfolios, the Moose Pond portfolio has higher PAR, higher projected growth, and a higher quality rating.  We can probably improve the overall PAR by replacing several of our low PAR companies with higher PAR companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always helpful to compare portfolios. Here are summary dashboards for the NAIC Growth Fund and for the Moose Pond Investors portfolios. The NAIC Growth Fund is a closed end fund that was intended to demonstrate NAIC principles. You can click on either summary below for the complete dashboard. In the past 6 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}