The manager of No.3-ranked John Hancock Large Cap Equity is taking his own advice, having recently snapped up shares of Bovespa Holding (ticker: BOVH3.Brazil), parent of the Brazilian Stock Exchange, and discount broker Charles Schwab (SCHW).

Manu Daftary of Quaker Strategic Growth (No. 9) is the leader in Aggressive Growth this year. Nowadays, Daftary thinks engineering concerns McDermott International (MDR) and ABB (ABB) are attractive.

Manu Daftary of Quaker Strategic Growth (No. 9) is the leader in Aggressive Growth this year. Nowadays, Daftary thinks engineering concerns McDermott International (MDR) and ABB (ABB) are attractive.

Another notable absentee is Scott Barbee, last year's winner, whose Aegis Value Fund (AVALX) celebrated its 10-year anniversary in May. It has returned more than 12% a year in the decade, but is down 12% over the past year, hurt by selloffs in small-caps and Spansion (SPSN), a maker of flash-memory chips whose shares have fallen 76% in the past 12 months

While the fund world ponders Bill Miller's fall from grace, some in the media now dub Ken Heebner the nation's best fund manager. CGM Focus Fund's 35% five-year return trails only ING Russia's in our survey. Heebner, No. 3 last year, has been a fan of fertilizer companies such as Mosaic (MOS) and Potash (POT), which have sprouted huge gains. Steel-producers United States Steel (X) and Nucor (NUE) recently were the fund's two biggest holdings.

While the fund world ponders Bill Miller's fall from grace, some in the media now dub Ken Heebner the nation's best fund manager. CGM Focus Fund's 35% five-year return trails only ING Russia's in our survey. Heebner, No. 3 last year, has been a fan of fertilizer companies such as Mosaic (MOS) and Potash (POT), which have sprouted huge gains. Steel-producers United States Steel (X) and Nucor (NUE) recently were the fund's two biggest holdings.

While the fund world ponders Bill Miller's fall from grace, some in the media now dub Ken Heebner the nation's best fund manager. CGM Focus Fund's 35% five-year return trails only ING Russia's in our survey. Heebner, No. 3 last year, has been a fan of fertilizer companies such as Mosaic (MOS) and Potash (POT), which have sprouted huge gains. Steel-producers United States Steel (X) and Nucor (NUE) recently were the fund's two biggest holdings.

While the fund world ponders Bill Miller's fall from grace, some in the media now dub Ken Heebner the nation's best fund manager. CGM Focus Fund's 35% five-year return trails only ING Russia's in our survey. Heebner, No. 3 last year, has been a fan of fertilizer companies such as Mosaic (MOS) and Potash (POT), which have sprouted huge gains. Steel-producers United States Steel (X) and Nucor (NUE) recently were the fund's two biggest holdings.