5 Funds Buck the Trend and Hoard Cash

This article was originally published in the April 2017 issue of Morningstar FundInvestor. Download a complimentary copy of FundInvestor here.

This far into a bull market, cash is unappealing. It's too hard for cash-heavy funds to keep pace with cashless indexes.

But, of course, that's some of its appeal. Cash provides defense, and it's dry powder to put to use in a down market. There are five Morningstar Medalists with big cash positions worth noting. Most funds with big cash stakes today hold a lot of cash most of the time.

Seeing so many of these disciplined value funds with near-peak cash certainly gives one pause about the current state of the market.