WisdomTree is the first company that manages ETFs based on indexes it creates and owns. Luciano Siracusano believes that the standard capitalization-weighted indexes are flawed in their tendency to overweight the overvalued stock, sectors, and regions. That’s why the company developed fundamentally weighted indexes to target better returns with lower volatility.

One of our core investment beliefs of Advance Capital I Equity Growth Fund is not to try to time the direction of the market and spread our investments across several companies. The portfolio manager Donald Peters uses a combination of quantitative models and fundamental bottom-up research to identify medium-sized growth companies with good businesses trading at reasonable valuations and own them for a long time.

The goal of the Hartford Capital Appreciation II Fund is not to be boxed into one aspect of the market but to be opportunistic and flexible. The Fund’s five managers, who have separate and distinct investment styles, aim to create a fund that can operate in all market environments. Michael Carmen, manager of the opportunistic growth sleeve, looks for companies with potential to deliver stronger-than-expected earnings or free cash flow growth.

To appear on the radar of the Thompson Plumb Growth Fund, a company has to display consistent growth, solid fundamentals, and attractive valuation. Above all, it has to be well established in an industry with sustainable -- not cyclical -- trends, and high barriers to entry. Despite the underperformance of his style in recent years, the manager John C. Thompson sticks to the quality large-cap growth stocks in expectation of an inflection point.

Instead of trying to predict when the market may rise or fall, Daniel F. Dent, portfolio manager at the DF Dent Premier Growth Fund, relies on selecting stocks with superior long-term growth characteristics, strong and sustainable earnings prospects, high quality management teams and reasonable stock prices. For him, the solid financial characteristics such as a high return on equity, good profit margins and a strong balance sheet are more important than the absolute size of the company.