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FYI: We have downgraded our assessment of Third Avenue Management, the advisor to the Third Avenue family of mutual funds, lowering the firm's Parent rating to Negative from Neutral. (The Parent rating is one of five pillar ratings that Morningstar analysts assign in making an overall assessment of a fund.) Regards, Ted http://news.morningstar.com/articlenet/article.aspx?id=734259
