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Ask A Fund Manager

The Motley Fool chats with fund managers so that you can get an insight into how the professionals think. In this edition, Forager research analyst Chloe Stokes tells us the shares that made her a bucket of money during the recent US short squeeze, plus a couple of regrets.

Investment style

The Motley Fool: What’s your fund (Forager International Shares Fund)’s philosophy?

Chloe Stokes: Forager’s philosophy is valuation based. We try to buy stocks where the underlying business is going to give us above-average returns over a long period of time. 

We think of ourselves as value investors, but people tend to pigeonhole value investing as buying businesses trading at a low price-earnings multiple. We think…