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American Beacon Mid-Cap Value Fund

 

Portfolio information as of June 30, 2007

 

Investment Advisors

American Beacon Advisors, Inc. acts as the manager of the American Beacon Mid-Cap Value Fund and currently allocates the Fund's assets, generally on an equal basis, between two sub-advisors:

Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, Inc. 50.6%
Pzena Investment Management, LLC 49.4%


Investment Style


In general, the sub-advisors select stocks that, in their opinion, have most or all of the following characteristics (relative to the Russell Midcap® Value Index1 ): above-average earnings growth potental, below-average price to earnings ratio, below-average price to book value ratio, and above-average dividend yields.

Ordinarily, at least 80% of the total assets of the Fund are invested in equity securities of U.S. companies with market capitalizations between $1 billion and the market capitalizations of the largest company in the Russell Midcap® Index at the time of investment. The Fund's investments may include common stocks, preferred stocks, securities convertible into U.S. common stocks, U.S. dollar-denominated American Depositary Receipts, and U.S. dollar-denominated foreign stocks traded on U.S. exchanges.

 



Asset Allocation

Equity 95.3%
Equitized Cash 4.7%

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Equity Sector Weightings (%)

  Fund
Financials

26.1

Consumer Discretionary 23.2
Industrials 16.5
Health Care 12.7
Information Technology 7.4
Utilities 7.3
Consumer Staples 4.0
Energy 2.8

 

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Portfolio Statistics

Equity Fund
Price/Earnings Ratio

14.1

Price/Book Ratio 2.9
Wtd. Avg. Mkt. Cap ($ bil) 7.1
Dividend Yield 1.8
5 year Earnings Growth 10.6
   
3 Year Risk Summary  
R2 0.90
Alpha 0.08
Beta 0.88
Sharpe Ratio 1.59
Standard Deviation 7.89

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Top Ten Equity Holdings (%)

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L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. 3.4
Whirlpool Corp. 2.3
Black & Decker Corp. 2.0
Tech Data Corp. 2.0
XL Capital Ltd. 2.0
Rent-A-Center, Inc. 1.9
Goodrich Corp. 1.8
Lowes Corp. - Carolina Group 1.8
Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. 1.7
Hillenbrand Industries, Inc. 1.7
Total Fund Holdings: 77
 

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1 The Russell Midcap Value Index is a registered trademark of Frank Russell Company.

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