| Loomis Sayles Growth Fund
Fund focus
Loomis Sayles Growth Fund seeks long-term capital growth by focusing on stocks of leading U.S. large-cap growth companies selected based on their growth potential.
What you should know
While the fund offers potential for capital growth, it employs a growth investment style that focuses on future expectations of a security. As a result, the fund may be exposed to greater volatility if these expectations are not met.
Investment strategy
The fund managers use a disciplined investment approach to identify stocks of leading, U.S. large-cap growth companies that offer market leading products, technologies, or services that they believe are capable of producing attractive long-term earnings growth and stock price appreciation.
Portfolio Highlights
| Information is as of 9/30/2008* |
| QUALCOMM, Inc. |
4.17% |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. |
4.05% |
| Monsanto Co. |
3.72% |
| Apple, Inc. |
3.58% |
| International Business Machines Corp. |
3.53% |
View a list of the most recent top ten holdings for this fund.
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for this fund.
Portfolio
Managers
Managed by Loomis
Sayles & Company, L.P.
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| Mark Baribeau |
Pamela Czekanski |
Richard Skaggs |
The following information regarding this Fund is also available:
Growth stocks are generally more sensitive to market movements than other types of stocks because their stock prices are based on future expectations. This fund may invest in foreign securities, which may be affected by currency fluctuations, higher volatility and limited liquidity. These risks are magnified in emerging markets.
Because the Fund can invest a significant percentage of assets in foreign securities the value of the Fund shares can be adversely affected by changes in currency exchange rates, political, and economic developments. In emerging markets these risks can be significant. The Fund is subject to currency risk, which is the risk that fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and foreign currencies may cause the value of a Fund's investments to decline. Funds that invest in securities denominated in, or receive revenues in, foreign currency are subject to currency risk. Accordingly, the purchase of fund shares should be viewed as a long-term investment.
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