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William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: One of my favorite songs of the late 1960’s was “Abraham, Martin and John”. It reminded us that a number of our country’s leaders had been assassinated. Investments aren’t nearly as important as life
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: A recent article in “The National” quoted Jim O’Neil as saying that current supply and demand for oil indicates that $80 to $100 per barrel for Brent Crude would be a fair price. For
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: In his recent 2011 shareholder letter, Warren Buffett explained the purpose behind investing, the “real” definition of risk, and the three types of investments which congregate the marketplace. At Smead Capital Management, we believe
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: We have been traveling around the world delivering a talk to CFA Societies on why passive indexes beat most active equity funds. We start the talk with the following William Sharpe quote from 2002:
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Printable Version Dear Fellow Investors: In the Bible’s books of Genesis and Exodus we are told that as Prime Minister of Egypt, Joseph was wise enough to store up massive amounts of grain in a seven–year
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Last week the Federal Reserve Board released the minutes of its meetings in 2006. There were discussions of the current economy, numerous credit tightening moves and a consistent belief in the idea that the
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: What is required for a whopper of a secular bear market is for most market participants to believe the positive side of the story all the way down. We at Smead Capital Management believe
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: We are owners of both EBay (EBAY) and Amgen (AMGN). We believe the dividend policy and price action in the shares of these two companies can teach us about stock price performance over the
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: As the chart below shows, correlations among the S&P 500 Index companies was the highest on October 10th of 2011 as it has been for 25 years. In the opinion of Smead Capital Management,
William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Two watershed events were announced in the last two weeks. First, Warren Buffett disclosed a massive amount of open market purchases of US large-cap stocks. Second, Legg Mason announced that Bill Miller is “stepping
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