Further findings should be of interest to paymasters everywhere, especially those seeking the nuanced path to best value and performance.

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The Intel SSD 335 Series offers best-in-class performance, quality and value.

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Of the 19 midcap and small-cap funds, Keeley Small Cap Value fund and Hodges Fund had the best raw performance, up an annualized 18.6% over five years.

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Norway's oil fund, one of the biggest investors in the world, rose in value by 13.4% last year, its second-best performance ever.

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The San Francisco-born and Minneapolis-bred Buckingham has continued the tradition established by his late mentor and maintains a diversified portfolio of value stocks for the fund and for the newsletter, and has achieved the best investment performance of all newsletters tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest for the past ten-, 15- and 20-year periods.

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