Portfolio diversification can help ensure stable returns, even in uncertain times. That's why the Alpine Dynamic Dividend Fund invests across industries with stocks ranging from small to large capitalizations with the objective to achieve a high level of qualified dividend income and capital appreciation for total return.

If you look at a smaller list of stocks, you are more focused and it is easier to find out when opportunities arise. That is the premise behind the Bullfinch Greater Western New York Fund. As a native Western New Yorker, fund manager Chris Carosa uses a traditional value investment approach with a behavioral twist to identify companies across a broad range of industries and market capitalization that have a major presence in the Buffalo and Rochester areas.

CSI Equity Fund is built on the premise that the investment process is more predictable over a longer period of time than over shorter periods of time. Fund manager Leland Faust seeks to achieve his investment objective of long-term growth of capital by investing in a diversified portfolio of well-established companies throughout the world and utilizing both value and growth oriented investment strategies in the security selection process.

James McCarthy, the manager of the Seascape Focus Growth Fund, believes that his fund has the process and the discipline to early identify companies that will grow faster than the market. Objectivity, or the lack of bias and emotions, is a key feature of the strategy that aims to pinpoint the best 30 growth stocks to own. Based on previous experience with private accounts, the fund aims to expand Seascape’s reach beyond the high net worth investors.

Passive investing is nothing but a way to lock in mediocrity, says Robert C. Auer, portfolio manager of the Auer Growth Fund. He believes that the market is highly inefficient and there are tremendous opportunities that can be exploited. The fund employs a time-tested bottom-up investment approach to construct a diversified portfolio of domestic stocks of all the market capitalization tiers with favorable potential for capital appreciation.