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Bill D'Alonzo and Team
Friess Associates, LLC
115 E. Snow King Avenue
Jackson, WY 83001
Bill D’Alonzo is the lead manager for the segment of the Fund’s assets managed by Friess Associates, LLC (“Friess”). D’Alonzo has been in the investment business since 1978, is Chairman of the Brandywine Funds and is Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer of Friess. Friess has been an investment manager to Masters’ Select Equity Fund since its inception in 1996.
Approximately 10% of the Fund’s assets are managed by D’Alonzo and his team. D’Alonzo invests in stocks of well-financed issuers that have proven records of profitability and strong earnings momentum. Emphasis is placed on companies with market capitalization of less than $5 billion. These companies are likely to be lesser-known companies moving from a lower to higher market share position within their industry groups, rather than the largest and best-known companies in these groups.
D’Alonzo may, however, purchase common stocks of well-known, highly researched mid-sized and large companies if the team believes that those common stocks offer particular opportunity for long-term capital growth.
In selecting investments, D’Alonzo considers financial characteristics of the issuer, including historical sales and net income, debt/equity and price/earnings ratios, and book value. D’Alonzo may also review research reports of broker-dealers and trade publications and, in appropriate situations, meet with management. Greater weight is given to internal factors, such as product or service development, than to external factors, such as interest rate changes, commodity price fluctuations, general stock market trends and foreign-currency exchange values. A particular issuer’s dividend history is not considered important.
References to other mutual funds should not be deemed an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy shares of such funds. |