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This Fund Is So Good It's Scary

10/15/07 - 10:29 AM EDT

Brett Arends

The "Mad Bomber" of Wall Street strikes again!

That would be Ken Heebner, legendary, if somewhat eccentric, manager of CGMRXCGM Realty (CGMRX) and CGMFXCGM Focus (CGMFX) funds.

He's also been called "the Savant." Either way, he's getting it done. And how.

I happened to put some money into the Focus fund during the buying opportunity in mid-August. I figured this would be a good home for some long-term cash.

I didn't figure on what would happen next. Gain so far: 50%. In two months.

Yikes! Sometimes an investment performance is so good it's scary.

Investors be warned: Heebner runs a concentrated portfolio and he takes risks. And a fund that can rocket can also do the reverse. But 50% in two months?

That's thanks to his huge bets on a few skyrocketing sectors -- like energy, commodities, infrastructure and fertilizer. Those four sectors account for more than three quarters of the fund.

His investors are also reaping the gains from another smart move. Heebner dumped financials, like the Wall Street banks, in late July.

His big bets right now include oil services giant SchlumbergerSLB, fertilizer companies Mosaic MOS and Potash Corp.POT of Saskatchewan, and big power infrastructure companies FluorFLR, Foster WheelerFWLT, McDermott MDR and CumminsCMI.

As of the end of June, he also had big stakes in VimpelVIP, a mobile phone network operating in Russia and central Asia, miners Freeport-McMoranFCX and Companhia Vale do Rio Doce RIO and oil company Petroleo Brasileiro PBR.

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In keeping with TSC's editorial policy, Brett Arends doesn't own or short individual stocks. He also doesn't invest in hedge funds or other private investment partnerships. Arends takes a critical look inside mutual funds and the personal finance industry in a twice-weekly column that ranges from investment advice for the general reader to the industry's latest scoop. Prior to joining TheStreet.com in 2006, he worked for more than two years at the Boston Herald, where he revived the paper's well-known 'On State Street' finance column and was part of a team that won two SABEW awards in 2005. He had previously written for the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail newspapers in London, the magazine Private Eye, and for Global Agenda, the official magazine of the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. Arends has also written a book on sports 'futures' betting.

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