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Wells Fargo Advantage Intrinsic Value Fund
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ADVISER | Wells Fargo Funds Management, LLC
SUB-ADVISER | Metropolitan West Capital Management, LLC ("MWCM")
PORTFOLIO MANAGER

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Jeffrey Peck Years of investment experience: 18
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Mr. Jeffrey Peck is a managing director and serves as lead portfolio manager for the Large Cap Intrinsic Value strategy with the investment team at Metropolitan West Capital Management (MWCM). He also serves as co-lead portfolio manager for the Global Intrinsic Equity and International Intrinsic Equity strategies. Mr. Peck joined MWCM in 2004. Previously, he served as equity research analyst with both Janney Montgomery Scott and Bear Stearns & Co., Inc.
Mr. Peck began his investment management career in 1995. He earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from State University of New York, Buffalo, and a master's degree in business administration from New York University. In 2004, Mr. Peck received the honor of being named a "Best on the Street Analyst" by The Wall Street Journal.
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THE FUND | The Wells Fargo Advantage Intrinsic Value Fund seeks long-term capital appreciation by employing a global perspective to identify 40 to 50 high-quality large-cap companies priced below an estimate of their intrinsic value.
FUND STRATEGY
- Invests in high-quality businesses, defined as those with sound competitive positions, established operating histories, financial strength, and proven management teams.
- Identifies companies whose values are currently underappreciated by investors; invests when those firms trade at a significant discount to their intrinsic value and catalysts are present.
- Uses a global, all-cap research process to identify catalysts that may unlock intrinsic value over a period of three to five years.
- Concentrates holdings in approximately 40 to 50 high-conviction names; manages company and portfolio risk by diversifying the fund across sector, industry, economic cyclicality, and interest-rate sensitivity.
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
- Transformational catalysts: The team identifies company-specific catalysts that it believes will help a company attain its full value over a three- to five-year investment horizon. Catalysts may include a meaningful change in a company's products or services, a significant restructuring, or a change in management.
- Attempt to limit downside risk: Two aspects of the team's strategy help to moderate risk – assigning a different analyst to evaluate underperforming stocks, which helps to keep the analysis unbiased; and investing only in high-quality companies with established operating histories, financial strength, and strong management teams.
RISKS |
Stock values fluctuate in response to the activities of individual companies and general market and economic conditions. Certain investment strategies tend to increase the total risk of an investment (relative to the broader market). This fund is exposed to foreign investment risk. Consult the fund's prospectus for additional information on these and other risks.
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