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ADVISER | Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC
SUB-ADVISERS | Artisan Partners Limited Partnership ("Artisan"), LSV Asset Management ("LSV"), Evergreen Investment Management Company ("Evergreen Investments")
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
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Menno Vermeulen, CFA Managed the Diversified International Fund and its predecessor since 2004 Mr. Vermeulen has served as a Portfolio Manager and Senior Quantitative Analyst for LSV since 1995 and as a Partner for LSV since 1998. Mr. Vermeulen has more than 14 years of investment experience. Mr. Vermeulen earned his M.S. degree in Econometrics at Erasmus University at Rotterdam.
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Mark L. Yockey, CFA Managed the Diversified International Fund and its predecessor since 2004 Mr. Yockey is a managing director of Artisan and portfolio manager for Artisan's diversified international growth equity portfolios. He has over 22 years of investment experience. Before joining Artisan in 1995, Mr. Yockey was the portfolio manager of the United International Growth Fund and Vice President of Waddell & Reed from January 1990 to December 1995. Prior to that he was an analyst specializing in the worldwide healthcare industry and international special situations at Waddell & Reed. Prior to joining Waddell & Reed, he was a health care analyst for the State of Michigan Retirement Fund. Mr. Yockey earned his B.A. degrees and M.B.A. degrees in Finance at Michigan State University.
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Josef Lakonishok Managed the Diversified International Fund and its predecessor since 2004 Dr. Lakonishok has served as CEO, Partner, and Portfolio Manager for LSV since its founding in 1994. Dr. Lakonishok has more than 26 years of investment and research experience. Dr. Lakonishok earned his B.A. degree in Economics and Statistics and his M.B.A. degree from Tel Aviv University and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration from Cornell University.
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Puneet Mansharamani, CFA Managed the Diversified International Fund since 2006 Mr. Mansharamani has served as a partner and portfolio manager at LSV, the Fund's subadvisor, since 2006. Previously, he was a quantitative analyst at the firm since 2000. He earned his B.S. in Engineering from Delhi University, Delhi College of Engineering, and his M.S. in Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Case School of Engineering.
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Francis Claró, CFA Managed the Diversified International Fund since 2009 Mr. Claró has been with Wells Capital Management or one of its predecessor firms since 1994. He is currently a managing director, senior portfolio manager, and head of Wells Capital's International Developed Markets team. Previously, he served as a senior consultant for Price Waterhouse's International Consulting practice in the United States and United Kingdom before joining the Inter-American Investment Corporation as an investment officer responsible for making private equity and debt investments. Mr. Claró has been working in the investment management field since 1986. He has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation by the CFA Institute. He is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society. Mr. Claró received a B.S. in business from ESADE in Barcelona, Spain, an M.S. in economics from the London School of Economics, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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OBJECTIVE | The Diversified International Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation.
PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES | We invest principally in the equity securities of foreign issuers through the use of three different styles of international equity management: an international growth style, subadvised by Artisan Partners Limited Partnership; an international blend style, sub-advised by Evergreen Investment Management Company, LLC; and an international value style, subadvised by LSV Asset Management. We consider equity securities of foreign issuers (or foreign securities) to be equity securities: (1) issued by companies with their principal place of business or principal office, or both, as determined in our reasonable discretion, in a country other than the U.S.; or (2) issued by companies for which the principal securities trading market is a country other than the U.S. We invest primarily in developed countries, but may invest in emerging markets.
RISKS | Stock fund values fluctuate in response to the activities of individual companies and general market and economic conditions. Foreign investments are especially volatile, and can rise or fall dramatically due to differences in the political and economic conditions of the host country. These risks are generally intensified in emerging markets. The use of derivatives may reduce returns and/or increase volatility. Certain investment strategies tend to increase the total risk of an investment (relative to the broader market). This Fund is exposed to active trading risk, regional risk, and smaller company securities risk. Consult the Fund's prospectus for additional information on these and other risks.
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