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Oakmark’s Nygren faces off with Morgan Stanley’s Lynch on disruption

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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There has been much talk in recent years about disruption and trying to pick companies that will disrupt their industries. The debate continued at the Morningstar Investment Conference as Bill Nygren of Oakmark Funds faced off with Morgan Stanley’s Dennis Lynch.

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Morningstar’s Katie Reichart moderated the discussion, kicking it off with a question about how they figure out whether something is a fad or a long-term secular change. Lynch said persistence is the key when it comes to determining if something will be just a fad.

“I think you want to wait some period of time before you get...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.