A cause for concern at Palm is its inexperienced longest-tenured managers. In particular, the cohort has only five years of average asset-weighted tenure, negatively contributing to the rating. The firm charges fees on its open-end and exchange-traded funds that are on par with category peers. On average, fees on its funds are within the middle quintile, giving it neither an advantage nor disadvantage compared with the competition.
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