Ivanna Olivieri 4 February 2013 Bill Miller an Value Trust Bill Miller manages Value Trust‚ a Mutual fund that has been extremely successful. It has outperformed its benchmark the Standard and Poor’s 500 for 14 years. It has earned a cumulative return of more than 830% over those 14 years. Bill Miller has a rather different approach to making his investments. He goes against the conventional ways of thinking. He buys stocks when prices are its prices are going down‚ when the market is
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FIRE 461 – spring 2015 Assignment: Bill Miller and Value Trust Case Brief Conventional academic theories suggest that in markets characterized by high competition‚ easy entry‚ and information efficiency‚ it would be extremely difficult to beat the market on a sustained basis. William H. (Bill) Miller III‚ a mutual fund manager of Baltimore‚ Maryland – based Legg Mason‚ seemed to defy such theories while managing Legg Mason’s $11.2 billion Value Trust. Miller and Value Trust outperformed the S&P
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Buffalo Bill was one of the most interesting figures of the old west‚ and the best known spokesman of the new west. Buffalo Bill was born in 1846 and his real name was William Frederick Cody. Cody was many things. He was a trapper‚ bullwhacker‚ Colorado “Fifty-Niner”‚ Pony Express rider‚ Civil War soldier‚ wagonmaster‚ stagecoach driver‚ and even a manager of a hotel. He changed his name to Buffalo Bill sometime in his early twenties for his skill while supplying railroad workers with
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In The Crucible by Arthur Miller‚ Abigail Williams plays a very important role as being a manipulative character that accuses many woman of witchcraft‚ some including Tituba‚ Sarah Good‚ Goody Booth and Goody Hawkins. Abigail also had an affair with Proctor‚ which leads to a lot of problems for him down the road. Abigail Williams gets a lot of women in trouble by saying that they were involved in witchcraft and that they were torturing children and young girls. The problem with Abigail saying
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Abigail Williams‚ a major character‚ is a servant to Elizabeth and John Proctor is known as the villain in the play‚ The Crucible written by Arthur Miller. In the small town of Salem‚ Massachusetts‚ girls are accused of dancing in the forest‚ casting spells‚ and conspiring with the devil‚ which is recognized as witchcraft. This creates a big conflict in the town that leads to many deaths. Abigail Williams’ choices influence the outcome of the play more than anyone else by her selfishness and manipulation
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REVIEW OF CHAPTER 2 OF OLUSEGUN OLADIPO’S THINKING ABOUT PHILOSOPHY; A GENERAL GUIDE This chapter starts by introducing us to the areas which confuse students concerning philosophy‚ they are; the practical utility of their area of intellectual engagement‚ the usual impression of the philosopher as an intellectual generalist. A philosopher as intellectual generalist is one whose area of knowledge has no specific focus and whose skills of critical thinking and capacity for discernment‚ are nothing
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Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion Denise Deibler SOC/315 February 6‚ 2012 Daphne E. Jones Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion What are the dimensions of cultural diversity? Identify and briefly explain the dimensions by referencing both textbooks. Some of the dimensions would be race‚ ethnic heritage‚ gender‚ age‚ sexual orientation‚ mental and physical abilities‚ and characteristics. These dimensions play an important impact on our early social life‚ as well as our life experiences. These
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Thinking About Diversity and Inclusion Dimensions of Cultural Diversity The dimensions of cultural diversity are categorized as primary dimensions and secondary dimensions. Primary dimensions are generally considered fixed and involuntary. Age‚ gender‚ race‚ and ethnic heritage would be examples of primary dimensions. People do not have a choice of when they are born and thus their age. Gender‚ race‚ and ethnic heritage are also not open to choice. Mental and physical abilities are also
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Before reading the poem‚ based on the title‚ “Love Poem with Toast‚” Miller Williams‚ the author‚ utilized this poem to express his emotions to his lover during breakfast. The unnamed speaker in the poem internally expresses his love to his lover. The speaker mentions that the bond that they share is the reason the world rotates. The love they share puts everything into place in their relationship. For example‚ the speaker utilizes catalogue to show the everyday things such as: “we do to make things
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In 2005‚ Value Trust‚ an $11.2 billion mutual fund managed by Bill Miller‚ had outperformed its benchmark index‚ the S&P 500‚ for a consecutive 14 years. This record marked the longest streak of success for any manager in the mutual fund industry‚ doubling the previous record. While Miller had been beaten in individual years‚ no manager has been as consistent. This has provoked many different questions in academia because it defies current conventional theories such as the Efficient Market Hypothesis
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