Bill Miller and Value Trust Background Information Bill Miller is one of the most renowned professional fund managers. This can be proven by the outperformance of the Value Trust‚ which is managed by him‚ compared to its benchmark index‚ the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P 500)‚ for an astonishing 14 years in a row; and this marked the longest streak of success for any manager in the mutual-fund industry. By the middle of 2005‚ Value Trust is worth $11.2-billion. Bill Miller’s approach to
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Leibowitz: Walter Miller Walter Miller‚ in the novel A Canticle For Leibowitz‚ mocks the way we are as humans‚ particularly in those ways that lead to regressive thinking. The novel pokes fun at the attention to impractical details‚ such as to the spent copying the Leibowitz blueprints. Miller also mocks humans by describing the inordinate amount of attention and energy given to a spiritual being such as Leibowitz‚ as today’s society worships God. Finally‚ the most absurd way Miller mocks today’s
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Or is killing worse than torture? Miller gives many examples of how torture and killing are the same morally. Miller expresses “both interrupt and render impossible the normal conduct of human life.” However Miller doesn’t believe that this is enough to say that one is worse than the other. But Miller also points out how tortured viction are ‘physically powerless’‚ and those who are dead have no power or autonomy. Concluding his statements‚ Miller comes to the reason that torture is not morally
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Problem oriented policing or (POP) was developed by Herman Goldstein what makes his research unique is that he also added into the analysis what he had experienced(Fritsch‚ Liederbach‚ Taylor‚ & Caeti‚ 2009‚ p 100). The goal of his research was to develop a form of policing that is effective but also committed to maintaining and extending democratic values. The concept of (POP) was to move away from the traditional law enforcement approach and with the community leaders and citizens identify the
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Case Report Bill Miller and Value Trust February 9th‚ 2015 Bill Miller and Value Trust is a well-known mutual fund company that has outperformed the S&P 500 from 1991 until 2005 and this is the longest streak of mutual fund success in history. The mutual fund was the managed by William H. “Bill” Miller III who by concept was a contrarian‚ which means that his investments were focused on low price‚ high value funds. The “measure “of the industry are based on indexes and every fund is compared to
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The Comfort of Things‚ Daniel Miller (2005) compiled thirty case studies derived from ethnographic observation of a pseudo-random street in South London. Each chapter takes the form of a vignette‚ called a ‘portrait’ (Miller‚ 2005‚ p.5)‚ that tells the story of a different person living on the street. Despite each portrait telling a discrete narrative‚ the text as a whole emphasizes the significance of material culture in conducting ethnography. During the study‚ Miller (2005) and his research partner
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my community. I mentioned in an earlier discussion post that stories can transcend us into the world the writer has created. Sometimes‚ the world the writer has created is inspiring and has the ability to impact how be evolve as an individual. Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha strove for spiritual enlightenment. He left his home at a young age to become a part of wandering ascetics‚
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Corporate Strategy SAB Miller Assignment by Matthew Jackson Table of Contents: Page 1. Assignment Cover Sheet 3 2. Question 1 4 3. Question 2 5 - 8 4. Question 3 9 - 11 5. Question 4 12 6. Question 5 13 - 16 7. Bibliography 17 Surname: Jackson First Names: Matthew William Subject: Corporate Strategy Date Submitted: 2008.05.05 I hereby declare that the assignment submitted is an original piece of work
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In the novel " Moby Dick " written by an American writer named Herman Melville and published in 1851‚ It was mostly about a sailornamed Ishmael that tells a story about a man named Ahad who is captain of the " Whaler Pequod " and how he is on an obsessive quest for the " White Whale " because in an previous voyage for looking for whales to get oil the whale bit off Ahab’s knee. The setting is at sea basically the whole time and Ishmael writes all about what he experiences such as all the whales they
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