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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...
...company's business operations without sacrificing its character. The imperious Schrempp, by contrast, continued to lurch from crisis to crisis until the Daimler board showed him the exit, three years before his contract expired. DaimlerChrysler stock soared about 10% on the news. The change of leadership "dramatically alters investor perceptions," said Merrill's London-based auto analyst Stephen Reitman, who upgraded the stock to neutral...
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...