Only 5 percent of fund holdings are in the more volatile small-cap category. The fund has returned -2.36 percent over the past year and -2.28 percent over the past three years. The fund was launched in 1984. Over the long haul, it has consistently outperformed its Morningstar category average.
ad hominem. 1. appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. 2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument. Compare ad feminam. Origin of ad hominem.
can refer to 2 different areas of writing. The 1st refers to the relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active voice and passive voice) the 2nd refers to the total sound of a writer's style. Ad hominem-. In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning against the man..