Digging into Oakmark Fund's Portfolio
Oakmark (OAKMX) has long exemplified a patient, bottom-up approach to value investing. Manager Bill Nygren has been at the helm since March 2000 and now comanages the fund with Kevin Grant, who joined parent company Harris Associates in 1988, and Michael Nicolas, who was an analyst at the firm before becoming a comanager in January 2020. The team works closely with a 14-person research team that creates an approved list of ideas for managers to draw from. Nygren and his colleagues look for stocks that are trading at discounts to their estimated private-market values, which they calculate usin...