Grab These 3 Mid-Cap Blend Mutual Funds for Significant Returns
Blend funds, also known as hybrid funds, aim for value appreciation through capital gains. They owe their origin to a graphical representation of a fund’s equity-style box. In addition to diversification, blend funds are great picks for investors looking for a mix of growth and value investments. A mid-cap blend fund is a type of equity mutual fund that holds a mix of value and growth stocks in its portfolio, where the market cap of the stocks is generally between $2 billion and $10 billion.
Below, we share with you three top-ranked mid-cap blend mutual funds, namely Glenmede Total Market Plus Equity Portfolio GTTMX, Vanguard Strategic Equity Investor VSEQX and Arena Strategic Income ACSIX. Each has earned a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and is expected to outperform its peers in the future. Investors can click here to see the complete list of funds.
Glenmede Total Market Plus Equity Portfolio primarily invests in long and short positions in U.S.-linked equity securities, including common stocks, focusing on companies across a broad range of market capitalizations within the Russell 3000 Index. The fund has returned 18.9% over the past three years.
As of January 2026, GTTMX held 90 issues, with 4% of its assets invested in Lam Research.
Vanguard Strategic Equity Investor invests most of its net assets in small and mid-cap domestic equity securities based on their relative return potential. VSEQX advisors do this by applying a quantitative process to evaluate all of the securities in the MSCI U.S. Small + Mid Cap 2200 Index while maintaining a risk profile similar to that of the index. The fund has returned nearly 23% over the past three years.
VSEQX has an expense ratio of 0.17%.
Arena Strategic Income usually invests the vast majority of its net assets in income-producing investments and leveraged loans, including debt securities, equities, government obligations and high-yield debt securities, commonly known as junk bonds. The fund has returned 8.1% over the past three years.
Jeremy Sagi has been one of the fund managers of ACSIX since December 2022.
To view the Zacks Rank and the past performance of all mid-cap blend mutual funds, investors can click here to see the complete list of mid-cap blend mutual funds.
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