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    Thinking about BillDead of AIDS‚” by Miller Williams is a poem written as an elegy to Bill‚ and all other victims of the AIDS epidemic. In this poem the narrator is speaking about his friend dying of AIDS. Instead of speaking of just his emotions towards his friend dying‚ the narrator uses words such as “we” and “us‚” speaking of many people feeling sorrow. Miller’s poem personifies the national mood in the form of a poem about‚ and more appropriately to‚ Bill‚ a presumed friend who has died

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    Bill Value Trust is a mutual fund that has performed well against various indexes in the years leading up to 2005. Value Trust takes S&P 500 as its benchmark index‚ which it has outperformed for the last 14 years. Prior to 2005‚ Value Trust had an average annual total return of 14.6%‚ which was 3.67% higher than S&P 500’s average annual returns. From exhibits 1 and 5 we can see that the return was much higher for Value Trust (15.04%) compared to the S&P 500 (9.48%) over a ten year period. The

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    performance to the fund manager’s conscious strategy of staying fully invested at all times rather than attempting to time the extent of market investments. Another popular explanation for the fund’s performance was the unusual skill of Miller‚ the funds’ portfolio manager. Miller followed a contrarian strategy‚ with several key elements. The main element was that he bought low-price‚ high-intrinsic value stocks. Miller’s approach was also research intensive and highly concentrated. Nearly 50% of assets were

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    David Maciejko Case Brief for Bill Miller and Value Trust In 2005 mutual funds were the fastest growing investment vehicle in the United States. Bill Miller is considered one of the greatest mutual fund managers of all time‚ since 1982 he defied the odds by consistently creating returns with his investments that outperformed the S&P index fourteen years in a row. There have been investors who created better returns in a year‚ but none have come close to have long term returns like his. The

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    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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    The Report of Bill Miller and MVR Publishing Introduction Bill Miller case told us a meaningful story about the importance of recognition of organization culture and leadership. Bill Miller excelled in academics and was active in extracurricular activities. He was trying so hard to be successful in his new company with his self-confident and maturity and was trying to be recognized by Roger Godden who was admiring and recommending him at beginning in MVR Publishing Company. MVR Publishing Company

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    Bill Miller Value Trust

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    1. This case goes back to the year the 2005. Value Trust was an $11.2 billion mutual fund in the middle of that year and had outperformed for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index for 14 consecutive years. The fund was managed by William H. Miller III. During those 14 years‚ the fund experienced an average annual return of 14.6%. This return outperformed the S & P 500 by 3.67% per year. Morningstar claimed the Value Trust mutual fund fell behind the S & P 500 in 32 12-month periods

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    In the Value Trust case‚ Mr. Bill Miller is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management‚ a subsidiary of Legg Mason‚ Inc. He was a co-portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust and portfolio manager of the Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity Trust. From October 1981 through June 1985‚ Miller served as the Director of Research for Legg Mason‚ where he co-managed (with Ernie Kiehne) the Legg Mason Capital Management Value Trust since its

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    attributed this success to the fund manager’s conscious strategy of staying fully invested at all times rather than attempting to time the extent of market investments. Another popular explanation for the fund’s performance was the unusual skill of Bill Miller‚ the fund’s portfolio manager. His approach was research-intensive and highly concentrated when 50% of its assets were invested in just 10 large-capitalization companies and he was not averse to take large positions in the stocks of growth companies

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    Miller Williams work ‘The Book’in no fluff poem that spouts out about love and hope‚ but rather an unsettling piece which brings into question the more evil aspects of human nature. It tells the reader of a journal which our narrator struggles and contemplates the existence of and shows how his overall views of it changed once learning the journal he used to record and encapsulate his life has the binding of human skin. Historical context‚(). Rhetorical devices such as () and the overall structure

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