Fears of a second dip in the U. S. economy are running high as the calendar marks the mid-point of the third quarter. Relatively robust corporate second quarter earnings reports have not been enough to sustain investor interest as concerns on the direction of the economy have returned to the forefront. Outperforming the domestic and foreign benchmarks, the AlphaProfit sector-based Core and Focus model portfolios and the best-of-breed funds based no-transaction fee (NTF) Growth portfolio are all up single-digits. The NTF Growth portfolio will be reconstituted on August 18 to include newly recommended best-of-breed no-load domestic, foreign, and specialty mutual funds .