the competition against their old funds. Winner (April 2002 to June 2005): Fidelity Balanced 8.40% versus 4.45%. Bob Ewing has done a nice job at AXP Mutual, and the firm's improved bond effort makes it fairly attractive. However, Ewing's
funds, and performance has improved. Overhauling the Equity Funds One of Reynolds' first moves was to hire Nick Thakore and Bob Ewing , who had been running funds at RiverSource, the mutual fund arm of American Express. Reynolds knew them since they both
was in dire need of improvement. Two of Reynold's early hires--Nick Thakore, who manages Putnam Voyager PVOYX, and Bob Ewing , who runs Putnam Fund for Growth & Income PGRWX--contributed to the revamp of the analyst staff and helped rework the firm
16% | Load: 5.75% This fund has undergone some major management changes in the past few years, with current manager Bob Ewing replacing Eric Harthun in 2008. To Ewing's credit, the fund managed to break into the top half of its category in his first
recent years.Below-average expenses. Bob Ewing is this fund's primary manager. Ewing ..... USAPGRWXCoreCore This fund's manager, Bob Ewing , follows a fundamentally based investing ..... managers departed between 2006 and 2008. Bob Ewing took over almost two years ago, part
Schroll, took over the equity portion of this fund, replacing Robert Ewing (who left to join Putnam). The team has run large-value ..... management teams. In late 2008, RiverSource replaced manager Robert Ewing of this fund's equity sleeve with the team from sibling
firms in an effort to help turn around weak fund performance. For starters, Reynolds tapped Fidelity alumni Nick Thakore and Bob Ewing to head up the firm's large-cap equities team. Thakore manages Putnam Voyager, while Ewing is the manager on Putnam Fund
recent years.Below-average expenses. Bob Ewing is this fund's primary manager. Ewing ..... uncertainty. This fund's manager, Bob Ewing , follows a fundamentally based investing ..... recent bounce in equity markets. Since Bob Ewing took the reins here in November 2008
Stocking took over the equity portion of this fund, replacing Robert Ewing (who left to join Putnam). The team has run large-value ..... a shake-up on the equity team supporting the fund when Robert Ewing (who built a middling record here since 2002) left for
boutique in Boston that was part of American Express' asset management arm. (That arm, Ameriprise, was later spun out.) Robert Ewing and his colleagues' main idea was to simply dig deeper to find important information that would drive a stock at a time