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Earlier this month, GMO led its quarterly letter with the provocatively titled “Don’t Act Like Stalin!,” penned by Ben Inker. Ah, I said to myself, remembering Alliance Bernstein’s white-paper headline, “The Silent Road to Serfdom: Why Passive Investing is Worse Than Marxism.” Another investment-management article haunted by the specter of Soviet ghosts. Regards, Ted http://www.morningstar.com/articles/852639/the-case-for-and-against-concentrated-funds.print.html