This stock fund manager outperforms with ‘fixer-uppers'

Small-cap stocks can help investors diversify from the S&P 500, which is heavily weighted to the largest U.S. tech players. Investors may imagine small-caps as up-and-coming companies focused on increasing their sales and taking market share from rivals, or ones facing binary events, such as drug trials, that can set up windfall profits. But Bill Hench, the head of small-cap investing at First Eagle Investments, takes a value approach, looking for companies that need to be fixed.“We look to get a dollar of ...