Wells Fargo Advantage International Equity Fund
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ADVISER | Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC
SUB-ADVISER | Wells Capital Management Incorporated ("Wells Capital Management")
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
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Jeffrey Everett, CFA Years of investment experience: 26
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Mr. Everett is a managing partner and portfolio manager for the EverKey Global Equity team at Wells Capital Management (WellsCap). He joined WellsCap in 2012 from EverKey Global Partners (EverKey), where he served as a founding managing partner and managing member since 2007; he was involved in both research (senior analyst/Asia) and portfolio management at the firm. Prior to joining EverKey, he served as the president of Templeton Global Advisors Limited. In this role, Mr. Everett oversaw all portfolio management responsibilities for mutual fund portfolios and activities within the Templeton Global Equity Group and served as lead portfolio manager for several funds for both U.S. and non-U.S. investors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Everett was part of Templeton's research group and was previously employed by First Pennsylvania Bank as an equity and convertible bond analyst. He began his investment industry career in 1987. Mr. Everett earned a bachelor's degree in finance from The Pennsylvania State University. He has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation and is a member of the International Society of Financial Analysts (ISFA) and the Association of Investment Management and Research (AIMR).
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Dale A. Winner, CFA Years of investment experience: 26
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Mr. Winner is a co-portfolio manager for the EverKey Global Equity team at Wells Capital Management (Wells Cap). He joined WellsCap in 2012 from EverKey Global Partners, where he served as a founding partner since 2007; he was involved in both research (senior analyst/Europe) and portfolio management. Prior to joining EverKey, Mr. Winner served as senior vice president, portfolio manager, and research analyst with Templeton Global Advisors Limited. In addition, he served as the coordinator for the global financials team and had direct research responsibility for global diversified financials. At various times during his career at Templeton, Mr. Winner had research responsibilities for the global sectors of aerospace and defense, life insurance, engineering, and country/regional research coverage of Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe, and Russia. Earlier in his career, he served as a trust officer at JPMorgan in the Bahamas. Prior to that, he was a credit analyst at Mitsui Trust in London. Mr. Winner earned a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Reading. He has earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) designation.
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THE FUND | The Wells Fargo Advantage International Equity Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by using in-depth fundamental research to invest in foreign equity securities.
FUND STRATEGY
- Maintains a core equity style that emphasizes bottom-up stock selection based on rigorous, in-depth, fundamental company research and incorporates top-down factors and developments as they affect market and economic activity within regions, countries, and sectors.
- Uses a bottom-up research process that targets fundamentally improving companies with underestimated growth potential or those trading at discounts to their intrinsic values. The top-down analysis identifies factors that may affect different industries and the operations, opportunities, and success of individual companies.
- Applies a dynamic investment approach within a disciplined process that provides broad exposure to international markets by employing an all-cap research process. The strategy is focused primarily on larger-cap companies and secondarily on smaller-cap and emerging markets stocks.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
- Diversity across size and style: The team invests across the market-capitalization spectrum and between growth and value stocks seeking to maximize the benefits of tactical opportunities that are frequently created by macroeconomic events.
- Opportunistic investment in both growth and value stocks: Growth investments provide the opportunity to capitalize on accelerating cash flows that are being driven by company catalysts, such as new products, changing management teams, or improving secular business dynamics. Value investments create the opportunity to profit from mispricings between a company's stock price and its intrinsic value.
- Emphasis on fundamental research: The team's approach prioritizes the fundamental analytical process by incorporating top-down macroeconomic research guides and taking advantage of changing economic conditions over a business cycle to capture improving tailwinds and to minimize the impact of cyclical headwinds.
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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