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Amid plenty of uncertainty, investors are looking for strategies that will make them wealthy. But you should forget about the idea of getting rich quick and focus on diversity, according to Larry Light, author of the new book, Taming the Beast: Wall Street's Imperfect Answers to Making Money.

A high-growth, rapid innovator like Apple is hardly the sort of stock you'd expect to find in a value investor's portfolio. Nevertheless, value investing guru Bill Nygren runs a mutual fund that owns some Apple shares. Find out why some tech stocks are appealing to value investors now.

When you're the daughter of investment guru Peter Lynch, it's kind of hard not to pick up great financial advice from dear old dad, even when he's not going out of his way to give it to you. That was the case for Annie Lukowski, one of three daughters of the famed Fidelity Investments Magellan fund manager.

After five years, 900,000+ words and a lot of interesting ideas this will be my last AOL post; a casualty of the Huffington Post deal. Chasing Value will live on somewhere else. In thinking of what to write about today, I thought it had to be a "best of" post so that I could leave readers with...

Wall Street's consensus sees the S&P 500 tacking on an 11% gain over the next 12 months -- with lots of ups and downs along the way. That has us inclined to play defense, with an eye toward bargain stocks paying generous, sustainable dividends. Here are our top 11 picks for 2011.

Where are the best deep-value investment opportunities? Where there is the most pessimism, of course. In this short video, fund manager Tom Villata talks about where he sees the greatest opportunities among blue-chip tech stocks and financials.

The Oracle of Omaha's latest regulatory filing got plenty of press about what the billionaire is selling. But investors can glean far more valuable insights from what he's buying and the reasons why specific stocks -- like these three -- appeal to him.

This deep-value portfolio has beaten the indexes for 12 straight quarters. The analysts who pick them use both thorough research and good judgment to make their choices. What are they buying for first-quarter 2010? Here's what.

Shares of Tyco International looked intriguing even before Tuesday's deal to buy Brink's Home Security. Now, with the business boosting its ADT unit, the stock appears too undervalued to ignore.

Apart from perhaps pawnbrokers and repo men, no one much likes a recession, but it hasn't been all bad for packaged-food companies. Take ConAgra, which served up one of Wall Street's most savory meals this week: a beat-and-raise quarter.