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Power Playbook: Health care

Now might be the perfect time to buy health care stocks, according to a portfolio manager at Thornburg Investment Management.

The sector has been an relative under-performer in 2015," said Connor Browne, manager of the Thornburg Value Fund. "We see opportunities across biotech, pharmaceutical and health care stocks right now."

Browne sees better valuation and potentially more industry consolidation down the road, driven in part by by the election cycle.

"With candidates like Hillary Clinton talking about drug pricing, conversation that might not have happened outside of the campaign trail, we think this dialogue will spur the sector and get stocks out of their rut.

Browne is overweight health care in the portfolio relative to the S&P 500, with 17.5 percent invested across large caps like Medtronic and upstart biotechs.


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