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Bill Nygren on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” (06.13.24)
June 13, 2024
Bill Nygren, Oakmark Portfolio Manager and CIO – U.S., joined CNBC "Squawk on the Street" to discuss where he’s seeing opportunity in the current...
Partner and CIO-U.S.
Bill Nygren has been a manager of the Oakmark Select Fund since 1996 and Oakmark Fund since 2000. He was a manager of the Oakmark Global Select Fund from 2006 to 2023. Mr. Nygren is also the chief investment officer-U.S. at Harris Associates, which he joined in 1983, and a vice president of the Oakmark Funds. He served as the firm’s director of U.S. research from 1990 to 1998.
Mr. Nygren has received many accolades during his investment career, including being named Morningstar’s Domestic Stock Manager of the Year for 2001.
He holds an M.S. in finance from the University of Wisconsin’s Applied Security Analysis Program (1981) and a B.S. in accounting from the University of Minnesota (1980).
According to Morningstar, the Morningstar Manager of the Year award is presented to portfolio managers based on the managers’ (i) “ability to generate exceptional returns;” (ii) “willingness to align their interests with shareholders;” and (iii) “courage to stay with their strategies in order to produce superior risk-adjusted returns in the end.
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June 13, 2024
Bill Nygren, Oakmark Portfolio Manager and CIO – U.S., joined CNBC "Squawk on the Street" to discuss where he’s seeing opportunity in the current...
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May 29, 2024
Oakmark CIO – U.S., and Portfolio Manager Bill Nygren says investors can miss out by selling stocks during a bull market run-up during a...
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May 17, 2024
Oakmark CIO – U.S., and Portfolio Manager Bill Nygren joined CNBC “Money Movers” to discuss the recent outperformance of the financial sector.
At Oakmark, we don’t have an opinion about how equities will perform this year, if a recession will start or if the political parties will produce pro-growth candidates during the next election cycle. As long-term investors, we don’t think it matters.
Commentary
What goes up… keeps going up. But we aren’t buying it. | U.S. equity market commentary 2Q 2024
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As growth stocks continue to dominate, we take a closer look at what might really be driving this dynamic. Trends come and go, and markets react – but at Oakmark, we focus on...
Oakmark Fund: Second Calendar Quarter 2024
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Oakmark Select Fund: Second Calendar Quarter 2024
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