Senior Adviser, First Eagle Investment Management, New York, NY, USA

Born in Poitiers, France in 1940, Mr. Eveillard is a graduate of Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, an esteemed French graduate school for business studies. He started his career in 1962 with Societe Generale 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 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. After managing the Funds for 30 years, Mr. Eveillard now serves as Senior Adviser and member of the Board Trustees to First Eagle Funds and as a Senior Vice President of First Eagle Investment Management, LLC. 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.

Past Presentations

Ivey Value Investing Classes (2014)
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