Tag: Commodities

Late in the Party

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer  Dear Fellow Investors: At the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in May of 2006, Warren Buffett was asked to comment on the commodity markets in the US and here is what he said: “I don’t think there’s

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The Tough Transition

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Stock market participants seem to be having a great deal of difficulty handling temporary economic weakness. This weakness is highly likely to be a combination of higher gasoline prices and the disruptions that supply

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Supreme Moment

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment). The world of value investing and portfolio management includes mean reversion and patience. Speculative episodes typically go on

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CNBC: CIO BIll Smead on Companies Raising Prices (5/2/2011)

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Dot-Commodities

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: At Smead Capital Management we have decades of investment experience starting as early as 1980, and have read the US economic history which we didn’t live through ourselves. In a recent research piece, Barry

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America: Not Built by Risk Management

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Fellow Investors: After 31 years in the investment business, I have come to the conclusion recently that we have become a nation of risk adverse people being led by a risk adverse group of financial industry

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Booming Commodities and an Anemic Economic Recovery

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Subscribe to the Missives Podcast Click here to listen to this Missive Dear Fellow Investors: At a recent institutional investor conference one of the speakers was the economist and chief investment officer of a major institutional investment

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Long Bears

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Subscribe to the Missives Podcast Click here to listen to this Missive Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: In prior missives, we at Smead Capital Management have shared with you that there is a large group of money

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