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Advisor Information for DODFX

Fund Inception05/01/2001
Name of IssuerDodge & Cox
Fund Advisor(s)Dodge & Cox
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Fund Managers for DODFX

Roger Kuo
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2006
Roger G. Kuo is Vice President, who was Senior Vice President and Director (since 2016) of Dodge & Cox; Research Analyst and member of Dodge & Cox’s Global Equity Investment Committee and Dodge & Cox’s International Equity Investment Committee . Mr. Kuo received his B.A. degree from Harvard College (magna cum laude) in 1993 and his M.B.A. degree in 1998 from Harvard Business School. Prior to graduate school, he worked at Bear Stearns as a financial analyst. He joined Dodge & Cox in 1998. Mr. Kuo is a shareholder of the firm and holds the CFA designation.
Englebert Bangayan
Portfolio Manager since 02/28/2015
Mr. Bangayan received his B.A. degree in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard College in 1999. Prior to joining Dodge & Cox, he worked as an equity research associate at Epoch Partners. Mr. Bangayan joined Dodge & Cox in 2002 as a research associate and assumed equity research responsibilities in 2006. Mr. Bangayan is a shareholder of the firm and a CFA charterholder.
Raymond Mertens
Portfolio Manager since 01/31/2018
Mr. Mertens received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1994 and his Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School in 2003. Prior to graduate school, he worked in private equity at Idealab and TA Associates and as a financial analyst at Alex Brown. He joined Dodge & Cox in 2003. Mr. Mertens is a shareholder of the firm and holds the CFA designation.
Paritosh Somani
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2021
Mr. Somani received his B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2001 and his M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2007. Prior to graduate school, he worked as a private equity associate at Francisco Partners and a corporate finance analyst at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Somani joined Dodge & Cox in 2007 and is a shareholder of the firm and a CFA charterholder.
Sophie Chen
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2023
Ms. Chen received her B.A. (summa cum laude) in Economics and Mathematics from Mount Holyoke College in 2006 and her M.B.A. degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2012. Prior to joining Dodge & Cox in 2012, she worked at Tiger Asia Management as a Director covering Chinese equities, and previously at JP Morgan as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Consumer & Healthcare Group. Ms. Chen is a CFA charterholder.
David Hoeft
Portfolio Manager since 05/01/2025
He is Vice President. He was Senior Vice President and Director of Dodge & Cox; Chief Investment Officer (since 2022), Associate Director of Research (until 2019), and member of USEIC, GEIC, and BIC (since May 2022) after joining Dodge & Cox in 1993. He is a Director and shareholder of the firm and a CFA charterholder. Prior to entering graduate school, he worked for two years as a consultant to the energy industry. Mr. Hoeft received his B.A. degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Chicago in 1989 and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 1993.