Jean-Marie Eveillard: the world’s greatest investors

Jean-Marie Eveillard shunned growth stocks in favour of going after value.

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Jean-Marie Eveillard was born in Poitiers in 1940 and studied at the prestigious Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris, before getting a job at the investment bank Socit Gnrale in 1962. He moved to its New York office six years later. By 1978 he was the lead portfolio manager of its International Fund (now First Eagle), which he managed until 2004. He also managed the Overseas Fund from 1993 to 2004, as well as a gold fund. Now retired, he continues to advise First Eagle and has taught investing at Columbia University.

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