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Secrets Of The Only Manager Who Beat The Post-2008 NASDAQ

(Bloomberg) -- For active managers, the math is stark. Out of thousands of mutual funds, literally only one beat the Nasdaq 100 over the last five, 10 and 15 years. It did so by boiling down stock picks to about two dozen companies and riding almost all of them to gains.

Ron Baron, the 80-year-old Wall Street veteran who still oversees the fund, says his secret is combining an unwavering faith in entrepreneurs like Elon Musk with just enough paranoia to call firms in his portfolio almost every day to make sure nothing is amiss.