Question about raising funds

I’ve got a question - and it may sound stupid to many of you here. How is it that you find money managers, who claim to focus on value investment principles learned from Warren Buffet or Charlie Munger, raising decent amount of capital - when these investors can just as easily invest in Warren/Charlie themselves?

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