Thursday, May 31, 2007

Eaton Vance's Tooke Turns Around Small-Cap Fund With `Unloved' U.S. Stocks

(Bloomberg) -- Nancy Tooke, the third manager of
Eaton Vance Corp.'s Tax Managed Small Cap Growth Fund since 2003,
is turning the fund around after a six-year slump.

The fund ranks first this year in its class of 235
competitors after rising 17 percent, data compiled by Bloomberg
show. The 60-year-old Tooke revived performance by investing in
what she calls ``unloved, undervalued'' companies such as
seismic-data designer Input/Output Inc. and ball-bearings maker
RBC Bearings Inc. Shares of Input/Output surged 67 percent in the
past year and RBC Bearings advanced 54 percent.


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