Fairholme Focused Income Fund

Last Update: 2012-02-03
Related: Bruce Berkowitz
Fairholme Fund

Number of Stocks: 11
Number of New Stocks: 0

Total Value: $7,931 Mil
Q/Q Turnover: 14%

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Fairholme Focused Income Fund's Profile & Performance

Profile

Fairholme Focused Income Fund is run by Bruce Berkowitz, the best investor among the younger generation. GuruFocus tracks Bruce Berkowitz under two other Guru Names. One is "Bruce Berkowitz", which tracks the SEC filings of Fairholme Capital Management. The other is "Fairholme Fund", which tracks the stock holdings of Bruce Berkowitz's flagship fund.

Investing Philosophy

The Fairholme Focused Income Fund seeks current income, other forms of cash distributions and capital preservation. The Fund attempts to achieve this objective by investing in a focused portfolio of cash distributing securities. To maintain maximum flexibility, the securities in which the Fund may invest include, but are not limited to, corporate debt securities of issuers in the U.S. and foreign countries, government and agency debt securities of U.S. and foreign countries, bank loans and loan participations, convertible bonds and other convertible securities, and equity securities, including preferred and common stock. The Fund will use Fairholme's focused, multi-sector, multi-strategy, value-based approach.

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