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Over the last 70 years, value stocks clocked a 13.4% average annual return, vs. 10.2% for growth stocks, according to Ibbotson Associates.

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Turkish, Russian and Polish stocks are the most attractive in emerging Europe, high-profile emerging markets fund manager Mark Mobius said on Friday. Templeton, which holds $400 million in Polish stocks, owns less than 5% of PKN as well as stakes in satellite navigation company Techmex and ING Bank Slaski, a unit of ING Group, he said. Mobius added Polish banks were unattractive at the moment because of their heavy mortgage lending and said Templeton Asset Management, an arm of Franklin Resources Inc, prefers their Thai and Brazilian peers.

The Omaha investor is taking advantage of the market turmoil to fire up Berkshire Hathaway's acquisition machine. Yet a string of recent takeovers has done little to buttress the conglomerate's flagging growth.

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s financial stocks such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to struggle, there is plenty of pain to go around. But those taking a real beating include superstar investors who focus on so-called value stocks. Several notable hedge-fund and mutual-fund managers -- including Marty Whitman, Richard Pzena, Bruce Sherman and Wally Weitz, among others -- are down about 20% or more this year in certain funds they run, partly because of heavy dollops of financial shares.

The Oracle of Omaha is a regular institution at the Allen + Co conference, and always a hot commodity among the media and tech CEOs here. Buffett makes a point to say how much he loves the gathering, especially all the free hamburgers!