William C. Nygren, CFA

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.