Vulcan Value Partners (VVLPX) has closed to new investors.
All five of
Vulcan Value Partners» investment strategies are ranked in the top 1 % of their respective peer groups since inception.
Vulcan Value Partners (VVPLX) was the other Bronze honoree.
The equally excellent
Vulcan Value Partners Small Cap (VVPSX) fund is also closed, though Morningstar has declined to recognize it as a medalist fund.
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Vulcan Value Partners fund (ticker: VVPLX) is up an average of 22 % a year over the last three years, putting it in the top 1 % of large growth funds.
In the past three years,
the Vulcan Value Partners fund exhibited good risk - adjusted performance.
A recent article in Barron's profiles
the Vulcan Value Partners Fund (VVPLX).
A wealth manager (and demo client) from Denver asks our view of his favorite funds,
Vulcan Value Partners (VVPLX).
So, too, is
Vulcan Value Fund (VVPLX).
Where there is more uncertainty is in small and mid-cap biotech stocks: «Biotech is just rife with speculation — that is not what we do,» says CT Fitzpatrick, CEO of
Vulcan Value Partners.
Not exact matches
Prior to founding
Vulcan, the manager, C.T. Fitzpatrick, worked for many years at Southeastern under famed
value investor O. Mason Hawkins.
In the chart below, I subtracted the returns of the Vanguard Small Cap
Value ETF VBR, which tracks the CRSP US Small Cap
Value Index, from the
Vulcan fund's returns.
While the
Vulcan fund benchmarks itself against the Russell 2000
Value index, the Russell 2000 is terribly flawed and has historically lost about 1 % to 2 % a year to index reconstitution costs.