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Relative Value (Smead)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Everyone wants to wait for the perfect time to buy into the…
August 22, 2012
Oil: Does Supply and Demand Matter?
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management If you are a long-time follower of our writing at Smead Capital…
August 14, 2012
Stock Pickers: “Somebody I Used to Know”
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Art has a tendency to express culture. One of today’s catchiest songs…
August 7, 2012
The Price of Glamour
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management The list of glamorous growth stocks getting hit by what we…
August 1, 2012
Math, History, and Psychology – Part 3
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Over the years, we have heard Charlie Munger state that Psychology…
July 13, 2012
Only the Lonely Can Play
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Successful investing is the defeat of human nature. Human beings prefer…
July 11, 2012
Math, History and Psychology – Part 2
Last week we wrote about the math of common stock investing and the effectiveness of mathematical discipline to portfolio…
July 9, 2012
Math, History and Psychology
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management In my 32 years in the investment business, success in common…
June 26, 2012
The Vision Thing II (Smead)
by Bill Smead, Smead Capital In May of 2010 we wrote about how important it was for…
May 17, 2012
"Real" Career Risk (Smead)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Jeremy Grantham is a brilliant asset allocator, writer and thinker. He…
April 27, 2012
Which Stocks Win on Main Street’s Comeback?
When I was in college, the hardest concept for freshman and sophomore economics students to understand was that…
April 11, 2012
The Value of Sentiment Polls (Smead)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management We (at Smead Capital Management (SCM)) have made the case that…
April 4, 2012
Buy Commodities, Sell Brands (Smead)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management We saw Warren Buffett quoted the other day saying, “We like…
March 28, 2012
Is Popularity Ruining Indexing?
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management We have been traveling around the world delivering a talk to…
March 20, 2012
Mr. BRIC Trade is on Our Side
by William Smead, CEO, CIO, Smead Capital Management A recent article in “The National” quoted Jim O’Neil as…
March 16, 2012