Nordson Corp. 401k (ESTP) Plan PSDS Scan 12-31-2010

The Nordson 401k Plan was again helped by company stock NDSN and performance improved slightly over last year. The Balanced portfolio and the employee portfolio largest holding is still the GIC but less so than last year. The Plan 5-year Balanced portfolio performance APR = 5.88% is about average and a Sharpe ratio of 1.23 is above average. The Plan has no target date retirement funds, which is fine, but a conservative allocation fund (has some gold) like PRPFX would help in my opinion.