2007-12-17

SmartMoney 2008 Roundtable

John Keeley Jr. of Chicago's Keeley Asset Management and Bob Olstein of Olstein Funds were on this Roundtable.

"We like to look under rocks — where no one else is looking," says Keeley, whose three sons help him run $6 billion in four funds.

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