John W. Rogers, Jr., Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel Investments, LLC, shares his strategy of focusing on companies likely to emerge from the current crisis with greater market share.  Click here to read, “How Three Funds Hope to Crawl Back.”

Investing in small and mid-cap stocks is more risky and more volatile than investing in large cap stocks.

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