Sunday, August 10, 2008

Bill Miller: Toughest market I've seen

(Fortune) Shareholders of the battered Legg Mason Value Trust mutual fund won't find many answers in manager Bill Miller's second-quarter letter to investors.

In his note this week, Miller, who famously beat the S&P 500 for 15 consecutive years until stumbling in 2006, deplores market conditions that continue to punish value investors, but doesn't discuss his strategy. His $9.7 billion LMVTX (LMVTX) fund has dropped 34% since last July, while the S&P 500 fell 12%, and suffered outsized losses as financial stocks plummeted.

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