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spier

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[spahy-er] / ˈspaɪ ər /

noun

  1. a person who spies, watches, or discovers.


Etymology

Origin of spier

Middle English word dating back to 1225–75; spy, -er 1

Example Sentences

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The letter was from Guy Spier, 60, investment manager of the Aquamarine Fund, and the first section did little to pique my interest.

From Barron's

“With 28 years of managing Aquamarine behind me,” Spier writes, “I expected to follow my hero Warren Buffett and keep going for another three decades—long enough to build a 60-year record and fully harness the power of compounding…but as the Yiddish proverb says, ‘Man plans and God laughs.’

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Spier, who lives in Zurich, was skiing with his family and on the ride home suffered an epileptic fit.

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Born in South Africa and raised in Israel, Iran, and England, Guy Spier External link received a degree in economics at Oxford and an M.B.A. from Harvard.

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Spier wrote The Education of a Value Investor, hosts a value investors conference in Switzerland External link, and has a YouTube channel External link.

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