Goldman Sachs Struct Large Cap Gr AGLCGX

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Fund Research and Analysis

by Jonathan Rahbar

Goldman Sachs Structured Large Cap Growth isn't a compelling option.

This fund is backed by a deep team. Run by the Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs, the team is composed of an impressive cast of portfolio managers and research analysts. Read more

Kudos

Style consistency.

This fund doesn't make big bets relative to its benchmark, so it's not likely to come unglued.

Deep research resources. Read more

Risks

This quasi-index fund lacks the low costs that help make indexing so popular.

By limiting its differences relative to its benchmark, the fund isn't likely to dramatically outperform, even in a good year.

Fund's performance has lagged its bogy over many trailing periods. Read more

Strategy

This style-pure quantitative strategy attempts to beat the Russell 1000 Growth Index by roughly 3 percentage points. The fund invests according to six sets of buy and sell signals selected for their low correlations to each other: valuation, profitability, sentiment, momentum, quality, and management. Read more

Management

The Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs boasts a number of experienced investment professionals and economists. Gary Chropuvka is the client portfolio manager for the U.S. funds, including Goldman Sachs Structured U.S. Equity GSSQX, Structured Small Cap Equity GCSAX, and Structured Large Cap Value GCVAX. Read more

Inside Scoop

This fund uses some cutting-edge quantitative models, the same used for other Goldman Sachs mutual funds and hedge funds, but the results aren't great despite extensive research resources dedicated to improving the inputs. Read more

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