Bill Miller: the world’s greatest investors

Bill Miller's approach was a blend of “growth at a reasonable price” and value strategies, says Matthew Partridge.

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Bill Miller scooped up $20m-worth of Dell shares in 1996
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Miller was born in North Carolina in 1950. After studying economics at Washington and Lee University, he worked in military intelligence and then joined fund manager Legg Mason as their director of research in 1981. A year later he would become the co-manager of the Legg Mason Capital Value Trust. He would eventually take over sole management in 1991 and run it until 2011. Since 1999 he has been the chairman and main manager for the Legg Mason Opportunity Trust.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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