Conversely, one area that hurt us this quarter was our U.S. stocks. They averaged a return of -1.6%, compared to those in the benchmark which averaged a gain of 1.2%, and detracted -0.4% from our return led by poor performance from DeVry Education Group Inc. (DV), a for-profit higher education company in the consumer discretionary sector. We believe this company is suffering unfairly from issues plaguing its competitors and we think many investors fail to recognize the quality of DeVry’s medical and nursing schools, thus we took advantage of the share price weakness to add to our position.
From Charles de Vaulx (Trades, Portfolio)’ IVA Worldwide Fund Q1 2015 Review.
