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To: rz who wrote (16574)	7/16/2004 9:12:57 AM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

rz, I don't even know how we get hold of his record.

To: rz who wrote (16574)	7/16/2004 10:58:41 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110194

re Faber, i don't know anything about his performance as a money manager, except i would assume he only handles very large accounts ($100 million+), or acts as advisor to institutional investors. it's just a guess, but i don't think his service is geared toward working stiff types. pretty much anybody who is in Barron's Roundtable league is in a pretty high stratosphere. even Bill Bernstein (who's never made the cover of Barron's as far as i know, but has three excellent books to his credit) has a minimum acct size of something like $25 million. getting famous seems to be a very good way to increase one's marketability as an advisor. * one of the things Faber has going for him is that he's extremely eclectic. but while there are limits to the practicality of an eclectic approach for small investors, it is especially useful to the centimillionaires who could be his target market or clients--they can go in and buy, say, a $5 million office or retail complex in Bangkok and have it be just a small part of their portfolio. but it's not as useful to workaday investors.