During his recent interview with Tobias, Benn Eifert, CIO at QVR Advisors, discusses options trading strategies and why investors should avoid options in single names. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: You find that there’s sufficient liquidity in the options, enlisted options, even in single names, to put … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: The Expert Squeeze And Man Versus Machine
Here’s a great excerpt from Michael Mauboussin’s book – Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, in which Mauboussin is discussing what he calls the expert squeeze, and when is the best time to utilize man versus machine, saying: As networks harness the wisdom of crowds and computing power grows, … Read More
How To Hedge Your Portfolio More Cost Effectively
During his recent interview with Tobias, Benn Eifert, CIO at QVR Advisors, discusses options trading strategies, and how investors can hedge their portfolios more cost effectively. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: I think since the 2007, ’09 crash, a lot of folks have been very nervous about … Read More
(Ep.26) The Acquirers Podcast: Benn Eifert – Volatility Research, Institutional Options And Volatility
Summary In this episode of The Acquirer’s Podcast Tobias chats with Benn Eifert. He is a Stanford undergrad, Cal PhD, and CIO at QVR Advisors. QVR is a boutique SEC-registered investment advisor managing quantitatively-driven, options-and volatility-focused strategies across absolute return, risk premium and hedging needs. During the interview Benn provided … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Dalio, Marks, Cohen Portfolios
Part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple features some of the top picks from our Deep Value Stock Screeners and some top investors who are holding these same picks in their portfolios. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Articles, Research, Podcasts, And Infographics 8/30/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: From Shareholder wealth to Stakeholder interests: CEO Capitulation or Empty Doublespeak? (Aswath Damodaran) The Real Bubble Has Always Been in Active Management (Reformed Broker) Not My Guru (Humble Dollar) You Probably Can’t Use the Yield Curve to Time the Market (A Wealth of Common Sense) WeWTF … Read More
Cliff Asness: Why It’s Hard to Say When Value Wins Again
Here’s an excerpt from the AFR in which Cliff Asness is discussing why it’s hard to say when value investing wins again: It’s the question every almost every fund manager wished they had the answer for. And not surprisingly, it’s one that Cliff Asness gets asked the most: When is … Read More
Michael Burry – Top 10 Holdings Q22019
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The Micro-Cap Universe Provides The Best Opportunities To Find Multi-Baggers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHdKAzxnRnI?start=2316 During his recent interview with Tobias, Ian Cassel, Founder of MicroCapClub and Intelligent Fanatics Capital Management, discusses how the micro-cap universe provides investors with the best opportunities to find multi-baggers, saying: Tobias Carlisle: Do you find opportunities harder to come by in a market that is, you know, we’re … Read More
Five Reasons Why Value Investing May Never Regain Its Appeal
Here’s an excerpt from an article at The Globe and Mail which discusses five reasons why value investing may never regain its appeal: There has been a lot of talk about the death of value investing. The strategy, embraced by Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett and many followers, has beaten … Read More
Nassim Nicholas Taleb: If An Investor Has A Risk Of Terminal Blowup, The “Potential Returns” Of His Strategy Are Totally Inconsequential
Just been re-reading Nassim Taleb’s book – Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, which includes a great passage on risk and a real-life example of how it applies in investing. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Under path dependence, one can no longer separate growth in the economy from risks of … Read More
Avoid Selling Too Early – Investors Need To Allow Their Stock Positions To Exceed Their Expectations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHdKAzxnRnI?start=1780 During his recent interview with Tobias, Ian Cassel, Founder of MicroCapClub and Intelligent Fanatics Capital Management, discusses avoid selling stocks too early by letting the stocks that you own exceed your expectations, saying: Tobias Carlisle: It’s very clever. On the Monster Beverage Hansen’s, do you think, is it luck … Read More
Warren Buffett: There’s No Easier Game Than Stocks
Here’s a great excerpt from an interview that Warren Buffett did in India some years ago. Buffett is discussing how there is no easier game than stocks, but investors turn that fundamental advantage into a disadvantage saying: If you look at the typical stock on the New York Stock Exchange, … Read More
Investors Can Generate Outsized Returns Using The Three Buckets of Micro-Cap Investing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHdKAzxnRnI?start=690 During his recent interview with Tobias, Ian Cassel, Founder of MicroCapClub and Intelligent Fanatics Capital Management, discusses his three buckets of successful micro-cap investing saying: Ian Cassel: I wouldn’t characterize myself as a value investor. I would say it’s more of a situational type investor, this has evolved over … Read More
(Ep.25) The Acquirers Podcast: Ian Cassel – Intelligent Fanatic, A Masterclass In Microcap Investing
Summary In this episode of The Acquirer’s Podcast Tobias chats with Ian Cassel. Ian is the Founder of MicroCapClub and Intelligent Fanatics Capital Management. He specialises in micro-cap investing, and believes that the key to outsized returns is finding great companies early, because all great companies started as small companies. … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Greenblatt, Pabrai, Spier Portfolios
Part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple features some of the top picks from our Stock Screeners and some top investors who are holding these same picks in their portfolios. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth Klarman, … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 8/23/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Why Complexity Sells (Collaborative Fund) Learning from other Industries (csinvesting) The (Not So) Fantastic Four (The Felder Report) Michael Burry Urges GameStop to Buy Back $238 Million of Stock with Cash on Hand (Scion Capital) Are Value Stocks Good Value? (Morningstar) Tesla Has Failed Massively … Read More
Seth Klarman – Top 10 Holdings Q22019
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Value Investor Insight: Alexander Roepers Interview
Here’s an excerpt from an interview by Value Investor Insight with Alexander Roepers. Making highly concentrated bets, as Alexander Roepers can attest, requires conviction in one’s research, flexibility of mind and, at times, a cast-iron stomach: Excerpt: While he spends considerable time and effort on “constructive activism” with his portfolio … Read More
The Secret To An Outstanding Growth Strategy Is To Prune Those Growth Ideas That Are Not Working Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmEMWylsmb8?start=2668 During his recent interview with Tobias, Daniel Grioli, the Managing Partner at Guisgard Capital, discusses the secret to developing an outstanding growth strategy that will outperform. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Daniel Grioli: And then there’s obviously the risk that you have with growth stocks where some disappoint, you … Read More