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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In "Neighbors"‚ Raymond Carver contrasts the lifestyles of two couples. The Stones are a more privileged couple who mix business with pleasure and take vacations at will. Their neighbors‚ the Millers‚ are a less fortunate couple who watch over the Stone’s cat in their absence. While on one of their many excursions‚ the Stones ask the Millers to once again watch over their cat. With access to all of the Stones’ possessions‚ the Millers develop an abnormal obsession with the alternate lifestyle. They
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Reflection 2 Arlene Blume In everybody’s life there comes a time where adversity stares you in the eyes. You have two options: You can lie down and let it get the best of you or you can rise up and overcome adversity. Let’s take a gander at how Arlene Blume reacts in the face of adversity along her journey up Mt. Annapurna. Along this difficult climb Arlene had shown great leadership skills. We will be using the 4 c’s model to discuss how these skills helped her journey and what she could have done
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Raymond Carver’s "Neighbors" In Raymond Carver’s "Neighbors" the speaker’s attention seems to be more directed on the Bill and Arlene Miller. The Millers are a married couple who were once a happy couple but as the years went along they felt grew apart. It seems as though they are too busy comparing their lives to the Harriet and Jim Stone‚ which are their neighbors‚ that they don’t have time to fix their marriage. The Stones do what married people should do and that’s "go out for dinner‚ or entertaining
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In the section‚ Words of Honor: Contributions of a Feminist Art Critic‚ in the book Women and therapy‚ Arlene Raven outlined the events in her life that have led her to be an art critic for the artists who were not as “bankable” as other artists. In this excerpt‚ she also discusses how her experiences of being raped exposed her to a cruel reality about the oppression women faced despite equal education acquirement. She became increasingly more involved to the feminist/political work‚ which led her
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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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Neighbors: A Classification Neighbors can either be a pleasure to live next to or a pain. However‚ for some reason it seems the neighbors that stick out the most are of the unpleasant kind‚ which are generally regarded as the neighbors that no one ideally wants to move next to. Unpleasant neighbors can come in three different kinds‚ the intrusive‚ the loud‚ and the self-centered. The first kind of neighbor not to move next to is the intrusive observer. This type of neighbor tends to get into
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Behavior of Neighbors Neighbors can be classified according to behavior into three types: good neighbors‚ bad neighbors‚ and eccentric neighbors. The first type is good neighbors. They are polite and true person. For example‚ if you encounter them when you go back home‚ they take the initiative to say hello to you. Then‚ they talk with you just about polite questions. Moreover‚ you could find fewer guests to visit them. If they have a party‚ they don’t make noises. The party generally ends before
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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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My Neighbors We can choose our friends but not our neighbors. So we have to live with our neighbors whether we like them or not. There is an old wise saying‚ love your neighbors as you have your self. No doubt‚ good neighbors is blessing. I live in a town. All the residents have settled here quite recently. Most of them are them are educated people who have shifted here from the over crowded parts of the old city. Just in front of our house lives Mr. Ahmed‚ a retired government servant. He
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