First Eagle Global (symbol SGENX)
As of May 31, 2011
The managers of this fund are not afraid to tune out conventional wisdom. “We’re very willing to not look like anybody else,” says co-manager Kimball Brooker. He currently favors Japanese stocks, such as manufacturing company Shimano, because he thinks they’re cheap. Generally, about 5 to 10 percent of the fund is allocated to physical gold bullion and stocks of gold mining companies. Over the past 10 years, the fund has returned an annualized 13 percent.
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