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What Are Our Names ?

TedTed
edited September 2013 in Fund Discussions
Fund Quiz:

I was once the fund manager of a very large and well known mutual fund from 1996-2005. My brother was once an analyst for a sector fund from 1998-2000 tht is red hot today. What are our names ?
Regards,
Ted

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  • Art
    edited September 2013
    Rajiv Kaul managed FBIOX from 1998-2000. A blank on his brother? Maybe.
  • TedTed
    Reply to @Art: Sorry ! Next time better luck
    Regards,
    Ted
  • hank
    edited September 2013
    I'm suspicious you are referencing the Gensler brothers, Rob & Gary. Rob left the Media & Telecom fund at Price in 2005 after a long successful tenure to become head of their Global Stock fund. So - there's a date match of sorts. Brother Gary was an analyst at Goldman Sachs in his early financial career around the time you reference. But, far as I can tell, this was not specifically at a mutual fund. Gary, of course, has written a book scathingly critical of mutual funds and has seen government service in Washington.
  • VintageFreakVintageFreak
    Yes. Gensler brothers has to be it.
  • TedTed
    Reply to @VintageFreak: Sorry! Better luck next time.
    Regards,
    Ted
  • Art
    Rupert and Charles Johnson.

    FBDIX and ?

    My last guess.
  • TedTed
    Reply to @Art: Sorry ! Better luck next time.
    Regards,
    Ted
  • msf
    I would have said brothers at Fido and TRP, but the latter was busy managing funds (not serving as analyst) 1998-2000. And the fund he managed during those years isn't even in the top quarter of its sector for the past year - warm, but not exactly hot. The fund he managed in 1997 - 2000 is indeed white hot, but those are the wrong years.

    So I may be off track. Will keep pondering.


  • TedTed
    edited September 2013
    Reply to @msf: Your warm ! Fido and TRP,
    Regards,
    Ted
  • JunksterJunkster
    The Stansky brothers??
  • David_Snowball
    Ooooo ... Rex and Rob Ryan! Didn't they manage money with their dad, Buddy?
  • David_Snowball
    Reply to @David_Snowball: Failing that, those dates do match the years Harry Lange ran Fido Cap App, just before taking the dive at Magellan. Hmmmm...
  • Art
    edited September 2013
    Bob and Brian Stansky.

    Magellan Fund FMAGX and T.R. Price PRMTX.

    Had to keep looking. This is it.
  • JunksterJunkster
    Reply to @Art: Thanks Art, couldn't think of their first names.
  • TedTed
    Reply to @Junkster: You are correct ! Robert & Brian Stansky
    Regards,
    Ted
    Fidelity Magellan Fund: http://financials.morningstar.com/fund/management.html?t=FMAGX&region=USA&culture=en-US
    T. Rowe Price Health Sciences Fund: http://financials.morningstar.com/fund/management.html?t=PRHSX&region=USA&culture=en-US
  • TedTed
    Reply to @Art: 1997-2000 PRMTX----1998-2000 PRHSX.
    Regards,
    Ted
  • TedTed
    Reply to @David_Snowball: If you continue to make light of serious mutual fund discussion, you will be banned from MFO.
    Regards,
    Ted
  • msf
    Brian was the manager (not analyst AFAIK) for Health Sciences from 1998 to 2000. The fund's five year record didn't make it into the the top two deciles (top quintile); the fund's one year record isn't in the top three deciles (barely made top 1/3). On at least a relative basis, I wouldn't call that a red hot fund. YMMV.

    Another of his former charges, TRP Media & Telecom (PRMTX) is top 1 percentile for past 1, 3, 5, and 10 years. Now that is what one might call a red hot fund. Today. Yesterday. Yesteryear.
  • TedTed
    Reply to @msf: This sounds to me like sour grapes ! The question was 1998-2000, not 1997.
    Regards,
    Ted
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