Joel Greenblatt Says Opportunity Is There If You Know How to Value Businesses

Here’s a great interview with Joel Greenblatt speaking to Erik Schatzker at Bloomberg Markets.

Greenblatt discusses active versus passive investing and some of the reasons why he still believes active investing is the better option saying:

“I was asked to give a speech at Google last year and I started it this way… I said even Warren Buffett says that most people are better off just indexing and I said I agree with him… I didn’t stop my lecture there. I said… but then again Warren Buffett doesn’t index and neither do I don’t… how come? It’s because the opportunity is there if you know how to value businesses. Which most people do not… To take advantage of the fact that the market is emotional over the short term… often!