Panelists: Portfolio Management Strategy

Bill Miller, CFA
Chairman & Chief Investment Officer
Legg Mason Capital Management

Bill Miller is one of today’s most renowned professional money managers. He is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Legg Mason Capital Management, Inc. and leads a team that manages $61.4 billion of assets as of June 2006.

Bill Miller currently manages the Value Trust and Opportunity Trust mutual funds. Legg Mason Value Trust is the only mutual fund to outperform the S&P 500 in each of the past 15 calendar years. Mr. Miller co-managed the Legg Mason Value Trust from its inception in 1982 and assumed overall responsibility for the equity funds management area of Legg Mason in late 1990.

He was ranked among the top 30 most influential people in investing when he was named a member of the “Power 30” by SmartMoney. He was also named by Money magazine as “The Greatest Money Manager of the 1990’s” and named Morningstar’s 1998 “Domestic Equity Manager of the Year.” In 1999, he was selected as the “Fund Manager of the Decade” by Morningstar.com. Also in 1999, Barron’s named him to its All-Century Investment Team and BusinessWeek called him one of the “Heroes of Value Investing.”

Mr. Miller earned his economics degree with honors from Washington and Lee University in 1972. Subsequent to graduation, he served as a military intelligence officer overseas and then pursued graduate studies in philosophy in the Ph.D. program at The Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Miller currently serves as Chairman on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute.

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