Buy for Foreign Exposure

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TRIMARK FUND $29.02 (CWA Rating: Conservative) (AIM Funds Management Inc., 5140 Yonge Street, Suite 900, Toronto, Ontario M2N 6X7. 1-800-631-7008; Website: www.aimfunds.ca. Buy or sell through brokers) takes a value-seeking investment approach, and this cuts the fund’s risk. The $2.4 billion Trimark Fund’s top 10 holdings are Novartis AG, Grupo Televisa, Reed Elsevier plc, WPP Group plc, Adidas-Salomon AG, Anglo- Irish Bank Corp., Kinetic Concepts, WellPoint Inc., Willis Group Holdings and Accor. Regionally, the fund’s portfolio is now distributed 34.6% in the U.S., 16.7% in the UK, 10.2% in Switzerland, 8.9% in Ireland, 7.4% in Germany, 4.8% in Mexico and 3.9% in France. Trimark Fund’s MER is 1.61%. Trimark Fund gained 6.2% annually over the last five years, compared to a gain of 7.0% for the benchmark Morgan Stanley Index. Trimark Fund is still a buy. buy…