| Portfolio Manager Performance
We believe our clients and potential
clients have the right to know how our investment manager performs
managing his own portfolio.
Since our firm invests for the long-term, we periodically engage
the services of a CPA firm to compile his performance over a five-year
period. A copy of the CPA’s
report is available to any client or potential client upon request.
Annualized
Compounded Returns
Below is our portfolio manager’s
compounded annualized return on investment for the five-year period ended
December 31, 2007, as compared to the returns of several leading stock
market indexes over the same period.
Individual performance may vary according to client’s risk
tolerance, investment objectives, market conditions and underlying
investments held in the portfolio.
The return below is net of 1.25% management fees, which is the
highest rate of management fees our firm charges. The actual management fees on an
account with $1,000,000 invested would be .85%.
WFS Portfolio Manager
17.81%
S&P 500 Index
10.78%
Russell 2000 Index
14.86%
Dow Jones Industrial Average
9.72%
NASDAQ
14.70%
The value of $1,000,000 invested for a five-year period with
dividends and interest reinvested at a 17.81% compounded annual return
would increase to $2,269,399.
The graph below displays the growth of $1,000,000 compounded
annually at our portfolio manager’s five-year average return rates as
compared to the growth using the five-year return rates of the S&P 500
and a 4% CD.
Disclosures:
The above return was calculated on
all of our portfolio manager’s investments held at brokerage companies
that have readily ascertainable market values.
This performance has been attained
through investments in common stocks, preferred stocks, closed-end mutual
funds, real estate investment trusts, master limited partnerships, mutual
funds, and money market funds all traded on the national exchanges. At December 31, 2007, the largest
holding represented less than 5% of his total holdings.
We present the annualized returns of
leading stock market indexes for comparison purposes only. Our portfolio manager’s
investments were not intended to track these or any other indexes.
All income from dividends and
interest was reinvested and thus included in the above stated
returns.
It should not be
assumed that future returns will equal the performance of the last five
years. There is a possibility
that returns will be negative in the future.
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