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BCSVX: A Foreign Fund With Flair

Though U.S. investors have had little reason to look abroad for opportunities lately, it’s prudent to keep some of your portfolio in foreign stocks. And if that prudence led you to invest in(), you are no doubt happy that you did. The fund boasts a five-year annualized return that beat its peers (funds that invest in growing small and midsize foreign firms), the MSCI ACWI ex USA index (a broad foreign-stock benchmark) and the S&P 500.

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