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Sep.05
2:00 PM ET
Friday, 5 Sep 2008
5-Star Big Cap Stocks

Patrick Cunningham of Manning & Napier says your best buys now are big-cap stocks. He might know: his 5-star Manning & Napier Pro-Blend fund is up 10.15 percent over the past five years.

Recommendations:

His favorite is Autodesk [ADSK  Loading...      ()   ]: "One of the best software franchises, on a global basis."

He likes FedEx [FDX  Loading...      ()   ]. Why? "One of our strategies is to buy into...cyclical slowdown," he explains. "Earlier this year, we also bought UPS [UPS  Loading...      ()   ]. "

He elaborated, "Their competition is diminishing. ...We're going to look back in three years and say, 'aren't we glad we bought these companies?'"

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