Wells Fargo Advantage International Value Fund
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ADVISER | Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC
SUB-ADVISER | LSV Asset Management ("LSV")
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
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Josef Lakonishok Years of investment experience: 32
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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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Menno Vermeulen, CFA Years of investment experience: 20
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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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Puneet Mansharamani, CFA Years of investment experience: 14
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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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THE FUND | The Wells Fargo Advantage International Value Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation through a quantitative investment model focused on equity securities of non-U.S. companies.
FUND STRATEGY
- Employs a deep-value strategy that seeks to invest in undervalued international companies with high potential for near-term price appreciation.
- Follows a disciplined quantitative process designed to systematically exploit the judgmental biases and behavioral weaknesses that influence the decisions of many investors.
- Focuses on stock selection within sectors while maintaining a country-neutral approach compared with the MSCI EAFE Index. The buy and sell decisions generated by the quantitative model: In order for a security to be added to the portfolio, it must be in the top 15% of all stocks in its sector according to LSV's ranking model. Stocks are sold when they fall below the top 40%.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
- Behavioral finance research: LSV is a pioneer and leader in this field and has designed an investment process to exploit investors' cognitive biases, which can lead to "herding" and "group think" behaviors and a tendency to rely on anecdotes and stereotypes as a filter for investment decisions. The team's research has demonstrated that value strategies potentially produce superior returns because investors extrapolate past performance too far into the future.
- Deep, experienced investment team: Markets evolve, which can lead to new, exploitable behavioral tendencies, as investors react to new data in different ways. LSV's large and deep academic investment team keeps it on the cutting edge of research, validating the relevancy of its quantitative model and the continual search for undiscovered and exploitable investment variables.
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 smaller-company securities risk. Consult the fund's prospectus for additional information on these and other risks.
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