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CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund
CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund
Investment Goal
The Fund seeks long-term growth of capital through investment in equity securities of companies whose earnings are expected to grow at a faster rate than that of the overall United States economy.
Fund Fees & Expenses
The following table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge discounts if you and your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in the Natixis Fund Complex. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial professional and in the section “How Sales Charges Are Calculated” on page 78 of the Prospectus and on page 119 in the section “Reduced Sales Charges” of the Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).
Shareholder Fees
(fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class Y
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases (as a percentage of offering price) 5.75% none none none
Maximum deferred sales charge (load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, as applicable) none 5.00% 1.00% none
Redemption fees none none none none
Annual Fund Operating Expenses
(expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund
Class A
Class B
Class C
Class Y
Management fees 0.71% 0.71% 0.71% 0.71%
Distribution and/or service (12b-1) fees 0.25% 1.00% 1.00% none
Other expenses 0.22% 0.22% 0.22% 0.22%
Total annual fund operating expenses 1.18% 1.93% 1.93% 0.93%
Example
This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods (except where indicated). The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
If shares are redeemed:
Expense Example CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund (USD $)
1 year
3 years
5 years
10 years
Class A
688 928 1,187 1,924
Class B
696 906 1,242 2,059
Class C
296 606 1,042 2,254
Class Y
95 296 515 1,143
If shares are not redeemed:
Expense Example, No Redemption CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund (USD $)
1 year
3 years
5 years
10 years
Class B
196 606 1,042 2,059
Class C
196 606 1,042 2,254
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes for you if your Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During its most recently ended fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 192% of the average value of its portfolio.
Investments, Risks and Performance

Principal Investment Strategies
Under normal market conditions, the Fund will invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus any borrowings made for investment purposes) in equity investments, including common stocks and preferred stocks. The Fund will generally invest in a focused portfolio of common stocks of large-capitalization companies that the Fund’s adviser, Capital Growth Management Limited Partnership (“CGM”), expects will grow at a faster rate than that of the overall United States economy. When CGM believes that market conditions warrant, however, CGM may select stocks based upon overall economic factors, such as the general economic outlook, the level and direction of interest rates and potential impact of inflation. The Fund will not invest in small-capitalization companies.

In general, CGM seeks companies with the following characteristics, although not all of the companies selected will have these attributes:
  • Well-established, with records of above-average growth
  • Promise of maintaining their leadership positions in their respective industries
  • Likely to benefit from internal revitalization or innovations, changes in consumer demand or basic economic forces
Rather than following a particular style, CGM employs a flexible approach and seeks to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. In making an investment decision, CGM generally employs the following methods:
  • It uses a top-down approach, meaning that it analyzes the overall economic factors that may affect a potential investment.
  • CGM then conducts a thorough analysis of certain industries and companies, evaluating the fundamentals of each on a case-by-case basis and focusing on companies that it determines are attractively valued.
  • CGM’s ultimate decision to purchase a security results from a thorough assessment of all of the information that CGM deems to be relevant at the time of investment.
  • CGM will sell a stock if it determines that its investment expectations are not being met, if better opportunities are identified or if its price objective has been attained.
The Fund may also:
  • Invest a significant portion of its assets in a single industry sector.
  • Invest in foreign securities, including those in emerging markets.
  • Invest in other investment companies, to the extent permitted by the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”).
  • Invest in real estate investment trusts (“REITs”).
  • Engage in active and frequent trading of securities and other instruments. Effects of frequent trading may include high transaction costs, which may lower the Fund’s returns, and realization of short-term capital gains, distributions of which are taxable to shareholders who are individuals as ordinary income. Trading costs and tax effects associated with frequent trading may adversely affect the Fund’s performance.
Principal Risks
The principal risks of investing in the Fund are summarized below. The Fund does not represent a complete investment program. You may lose money by investing in the Fund.

Emerging Markets Risk: Investing in emerging markets companies, which may be smaller and have shorter operating histories than companies in developed markets, involves risks in addition to, and greater than, those generally associated with investing in companies in developed foreign markets. The extent of economic development, political stability, market depth, infrastructure, capitalization, accounting standards and transparency, and regulatory oversight in emerging market economies is generally less than in more developed markets.

Equity Securities Risk: The value of the Fund’s investments in equity securities could be subject to unpredictable declines in the value of individual securities and periods of below-average performance in individual securities or in the equity market as a whole. Growth stocks are generally more sensitive to market movements than other types of stocks primarily because their stock prices are based heavily on future expectations. If the adviser’s assessment of the prospects for a company’s growth is wrong, or if the adviser’s judgment of how other investors will value the company’s growth is wrong, then the price of the company’s stock may fall or not approach the value that the adviser has placed on it. In the event an issuer is liquidated or declares bankruptcy, the claims of owners of the issuer’s bonds generally take precedence over the claims of those who own preferred stock or common stock.

Focused Investment Risk: Because the Fund may invest in a small number of industries or securities, it may have more risk because the impact of a single economic, political or regulatory occurrence may have a greater adverse impact on the Fund’s net asset value.

Foreign Securities Risk: Investments in foreign securities may be subject to greater political, economic, environmental, credit and information risks. The Fund’s investments in foreign securities also are subject to foreign currency fluctuations and other foreign currency-related risks. Foreign securities may be subject to higher volatility than U.S. securities, varying degrees of regulation and limited liquidity.

Investments in Other Investment Companies Risk: The Fund will indirectly bear the management, service and other fees of any other investment companies in which it invests in addition to its own expenses.

Key Personnel Risk: If one or more key individuals become unavailable to the investment adviser, including the Fund’s portfolio manager, who is important to the management of the Fund’s assets, the Fund could suffer material adverse effects, including substantial share redemptions that could require the Fund to sell portfolio securities at times when markets are not favorable.

Management Risk: A strategy used by the Fund’s portfolio managers may fail to produce the intended result.

Market Risk: The market value of a security will move up and down, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, based upon a change in an issuer’s financial condition, as well as overall market and economic conditions.

REITs Risk: Investments in the real estate industry, including REITs, are particularly sensitive to economic downturns and are sensitive to factors such as changes in real estate values, property taxes and tax laws, interest rates, cash flow of underlying real estate assets, occupancy rates, government regulations affecting zoning, land use and rents and the management skill and creditworthiness of the issuer. Companies in the real estate industry also may be subject to liabilities under environmental and hazardous waste laws. In addition, the value of a REIT is affected by changes in the value of the properties owned by the REIT or mortgage loans held by the REIT. REITs are also subject to default and prepayment risk. Many REITs are highly leveraged, increasing their risk. The Fund will indirectly bear its proportionate share of expenses, including management fees, paid by each REIT in which it invests in addition to the expenses of the Fund.
Risk/Return Bar Chart and Table
The bar chart and table shown below provide some indication of the risks of investing in the Fund by showing changes in the Fund’s performance from year-to-year and by showing how the Fund’s average annual returns for the one-year, five-year and ten-year periods compare to those of a broad measure of market performance. The Fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does not necessarily indicate how the Fund will perform in the future. Updated performance information is available online at ngam.natixis.com and/or by calling the Fund toll-free at 800-225-5478.

The chart does not reflect any sales charge that you may be required to pay when you buy or redeem the Fund’s shares. A sales charge will reduce your return.
Total Returns for Class A Shares
Bar Chart
Highest Quarterly Return:
Second Quarter 2003, 17.52%

Lowest Quarterly Return:
Third Quarter 2011, -24.23%
Class B total returns in the table below do not reflect the automatic conversion of Class B shares to Class A shares after eight years.
Average Annual Total Returns
(for the periods ended December 31, 2012)
Average Annual Total Returns CGM Advisor Targeted Equity Fund
Past 1 Year
Past 5 Years
Past 10 Years
Class A
8.82% (3.60%) 8.38%
Class A Return After Taxes on Distributions
7.95% (4.04%) 7.81%
Class A Return After Taxes on Distributions & Sale of Fund Shares
6.87% (3.14%) 7.26%
Class B
9.54% (3.54%) 8.21%
Class C
13.45% (3.19%) 8.22%
Class Y
15.69% (2.21%) 9.34%
S&P 500® Index
16.00% 1.66% 7.10%
After-tax returns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes. Actual after-tax returns depend on an investor’s tax situation and may differ from those shown. After-tax returns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements, such as 401(k) plans, qualified plans, education savings accounts, such as 529 plans, or individual retirement accounts. The after-tax returns are shown for only one class of the Fund. After-tax returns for the other classes of the Fund will vary. The Return After Taxes on Distributions & Sale of Fund Shares for the 5-year period exceeds the Return Before Taxes due to an assumed tax benefit from losses on a sale of Fund shares at the end of the measurement period. Index performance reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes.