Morningstar Inc. named its 2014 U.S. Fund Manager of the Year award winners Wednesday.

The awards acknowledge managers who not only delivered impressive performance in 2014, but who have also shown excellent long-term risk-adjusted returns and have been good stewards of fund shareholders’ capital, Morningstar says.

The leaders in five categories are selected each year: domestic stock, international stock, fixed income, alternatives, and allocation. The winners are:

Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year

The team from Primecap, Theo Kolokotrones, Joel Fried, Al Mordecai, Mohsin Ansari, and James Marchetti. They are recognized for management of Primecap Odyssey Aggressive Growth, Primecap Odyssey Growth, Primecap Odyssey Stock, Vanguard Capital Opportunity, Vanguard Primecap Core and Vanguard Primecap.

All six funds have a Morningstar analyst rating of gold, the company’s highest medalist rating, with positive scores for all five pillars of the rating: process, performance, people, parent and price. In 2014, all of the funds generated returns greater than 13.5 percent.

International-Stock Fund Manager of the Year

Charles Pohl, Diana Strandberg, and team, Dodge and Cox International Stock. The nine-person Dodge and Cox International Stock Policy Committee runs the fund, and each of the members has been with Dodge and Cox for more than a decade. The managers follow a patient value strategy with low turnover, says Morningstar.

Fixed-Income Fund Manager of the Year

Ken Leech, Carl Eichstaedt, and Mark Lindbloom, Western Asset Core Bond and Western Asset Core Plus Bond. Silver-rated Western Asset Core Bond and Western Asset Core Plus Bond follow a straightforward process and bounced back from losses in 2008 to both land in the top decile of the Morningstar intermediate-term bond category over the past five years.

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