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Jean-Marie Eveillard is the Portfolio Manager of the First Eagle Global, Overseas, Gold, U.S. Value and Overseas Variable Funds. Mr. Eveillard is widely regarded by the investing community as a legend of value investing. After reading "The Intelligent Investor" (regarded by Mr. Eveillard as the best book ever written about investing) and "Securities Analysis" by Benjamin Graham in 1968, Mr. Eveillard's affinity for value investing began to flourish. Mr. Eveillard describes value investing today as "a big tent that accomodates many different people. At one end of the tent there is Ben Graham, and at the other end of the tent there is Warren Buffett." Today Mr. Eveillard's style floats between the two and can be further categorized by the following characteristics: preservation of capital is of highest priority, insistence on a margin of safety, willingness to hold cash if opporunities are not present, the use of gold as a hedge against inflation risk, stringent bottom-up fundamental analysis and strong aversion to risk.

Education
Born in Poitiers, France in 1940, Mr. Eveillard is a graduate of Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, an esteemed French graduate school for economic studies.

Investment Career
He started his career in 1962 with Societe Generale, one of France's largest banks, until relocating to the United States in 1968. Two years later, Mr. Eveillard began as an analyst with the SoGen International Fund. In 1979, he was appointed as the portfolio manager of the SoGen International Fund, later named the First Eagle Global Fund. He then went on to manage the First Eagle Overseas and First Eagle Gold  Funds at their inception in 1993 as well as the First Eagle U.S. Value Fund, which began in September 2001. Mr. Eveillard left his portfolio management duties on December 31, 2004 but continued to serve as Senior Vice President and Senior Adviser to the funds. He is currently joined in his Portfolio Management duties by Matthew McLennan and Abhay Deshpande alongside a team of analysts.

Awards and Honors
Mr. Eveillard was named Morningstar's International Manager of the Year in 2001, and in 2003 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Morningstar for building one of the most successful long-term records in the investment business.