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...Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Md., has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled, to $70 per bbl., yet Miller missed the entire runup. "It's a mistake we should not have made," he says...
Swensen If you want to distill my book into two pages, yes, it's about indexing being the best way for individuals to invest. The costs are low, and you can get true diversification. But it's not just about that. It's also about investor behavior. Most people buy a fund after it's gone up and sell after it's gone down. You can't make money that way. My hope is that people will understand how to do the right thing--and stick with...
TIME What assets should be in every investor...
TIME Some might say you underestimate the individual investor...
Some of the most desirable venture capital and hedge funds only take a few million dollars from each investor. Once Harvard uses up these top-tier allocations, it must “go down the quality spectrum [of firms], which is very dangerous,” Harvard Management Company President Jack R. Meyer said...