Abroad At Home

Published Friday, February 01, 2008

Using a wide-ranging investing style, Peter Lynch dominated the fund world during the 1980s. The manager of Fidelity Magellan was known to pick stocks from all over the market: He would buy small bank stocks one year and large industrials the next. In the 1990s, Lynch retired, and suddenly his investing style fell out of favor. Most fund managers were corralled into narrow boxes. Urged by consultants, more fund companies began requiring managers to follow tightly-defined investing disciplines, such as small value or large growth. By maintaining purity, the consultants said, funds could produce more predictable results and ...

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