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Tax-Free Dividend Reinvestment

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Ten-Year US Treasury Yield since 1/1/1871  My career started as a stock brokerage trainee at Drexel Burnham Lambert in 1980. As you can see in the chart above, interest rates at that time were

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CNBC: CIO Bill Smead talks about the US markets (8/14/2012)

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Risk Mitigation

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: How did the job of an asset allocator move from seeking out undervalued asset classes and securities to one of seeking to mitigate risk? Is risk mitigation a worthy goal or even possible without

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Relative Value

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Everyone wants to wait for the perfect time to buy into the stock market or into any major investment market. They want to enter at historically cheap prices or at “absolute values”. We at

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Bloomberg TV: CIO Bill Smead on China’s Slowdown (8/9/2012)

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Oil: Does Supply and Demand Matter?

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: If you are a long-time follower of our writing at Smead Capital Management (SCM), you are aware of our belief that a titanic shift is in process in the world economy. The fastest growing

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Stock Pickers: “Somebody I Used to Know”

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Art has a tendency to express culture. One of today’s catchiest songs does a great job of explaining the relationship between institutional/individual investors and US common stock picking. In Gotye’s, “Somebody I Used to

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