This five-star fund manager says even smart investors have been missing the greatest theme of our time

The news these days is distracting even for Wall Street’s best, like Alger Funds’ star stock picker and portfolio manager Patrick Kelly, who kept watch on Iran-Israel headlines while sharing secrets of the

five-star Morningstar-rated Alger Focus Equity Fund’s ALAFX success.

“We live in obviously a dangerous world,” and protecting clients from that is tough, Kelly told MarketWatch in an interview on Monday. “Through everything that’s occurred over the past several years and everything that’s occurred over the past year to date, I think it has served us well to focus on companies that are executing.”