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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Money managers including Bill Gross and Donald Yacktman are in a slate of nominees for Morningstar's manager of the decade - "the most brutal period for investors since the 1930s." 1 comment!
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By guruek. (GuruFocus, November 9, 2009) Donald Yacktman, chief investment officer at Yacktman Asset Management Co., talks with Bloomberg about Kraft Foods Inc.'s bid to acquire Cadbury Plc. Kraft stuck to its initial bid in an unsolicited offer to buy Cadbury for 9.8 billion pounds ($16 billion). Cadbury, the world's second-largest candy and chocolate maker, rejected Kraft's offer,...
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
By Jonathan Burr. Donald Yacktman is a growth and value investor, leading the $1.73 billion Yacktman Asset Management Co. Mr. Yacktman is the President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Yacktman Asset Management Co. He is also a Co-Manager for The Yacktman Funds. Prior to founding Yacktman funds in 1992, he served for nine years as the Portfolio Manager...
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By guruek. (GuruFocus, October 30, 2009) Investment Guru Donald Yacktman wrote a letter to his investors. His two funds had a good third quarter and a good year. For the quarter, the Yacktman Fund and The Yacktman Focused Fund were up 19% and 16.9%, respectively, beating S&P 500's rising of 15.6% . For the year, The Yacktman Fund and The Yacktman Focused...
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
By guruek. (GuruFocus, October 30, 2009) In In the earlier article, we just reviewed the top six holdings of Donald Yacktman's aggregated portfolio for his two funds and the other managed accounts. Feeling we have not said enough about the portfolio, we come up with this supplement to that article. Read more » »
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
In his recent interviews, Don Yacktman said he finds bargains in quality companies and he has been buying them. This is his third quarter portfolio update. He is buying blue chips that are cheap. Read more » »
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iStockAnalyst.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... 30th, versus a 16% gain for the benchmark. Meanwhile, during the first three quarters of 2009, the Yacktman Fund has not only bested the S&P 500 with a 48% return (as opposed to a 19% gain for the index), it has outperformed all of its mutual fund peers on our list of top managers, where the average return was closer to 21% over the same period.For those not familiar with the fund's inner...