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Bill Nygren on CNBC’s “Money Movers” (03.12.25)
March 12, 2025
Harris | Oakmark CIO-U.S. and Portfolio Manager Bill Nygren joined CNBC’s “Money Movers” to discuss where he’s finding value in today’s market.

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Bill Nygren has been a manager of the Oakmark Select Fund since 1996, the Oakmark Fund since 2000 and the Oakmark U.S. Large Cap ETF since 2024. 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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March 12, 2025
Harris | Oakmark CIO-U.S. and Portfolio Manager Bill Nygren joined CNBC’s “Money Movers” to discuss where he’s finding value in today’s market.
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Despite the dwindling large-cap stock universe, we are still finding fundamentally large businesses that meet our value investment criteria.
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While broad market valuations are above historic averages, the wide spread in valuation multiples is providing us with opportunities to invest in a diversified mix of high-quality businesses at attractive prices.
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We believe the wide spread in valuation multiples provides our clients with both a margin of safety and the potential for superior future returns.