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Buy value funds while they're down
Submitted on 11/20/2007
This article looks at three whose managers stand consistent in their approach, even as growth stocks' returns have dwarfed theirs. Their patience and persistence will pay.
Most people take credit for winning. Wally Weitz takes credit for losing. "Over the years, our investors have gotten used to seeing our funds zig while the market zagged," the manager of Weitz Value Fund (WVALX) wrote to his shareholders at the end of September, when the fund was down 4% for the year, 9 percentage points worse than the market. "In the third quarter of calendar 2007, we outdid ourselves."
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