This Week’s Best Investing Reads 6/7/2019

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Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Tobias Carlisle – The Risks And Rewards Of Deep Value Investing (Bloomberg) The Danger of Comparing Yourself to Others (Farnam Street) Tesla’s Travails: Curfew for a Corporate Teenager? (Aswath Damodaran) Financial Advice For My New Daughter (Collaborative Fund) The Coddling of the American Investor … Read More

Seth Klarman: “Value Investing Is At Its Core The Marriage Of A Contrarian Streak And A Calculator.”

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We’ve just been re-reading Michael Mauboussin’s book – The Success Equation. There’s a great passage in the book with discusses investor psychology, and some of the findings of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. There’s also an great explanation of one of Seth Klarman’s most famous investing quotes: “Value investing is … Read More

Investors Must Continue To Challenge Their Long Held Beliefs

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGIb1SfpvU?start=2518 During his recent interview with Tobias chats with Jim O’Shaughnessy, best selling author and Co-Chief Investment Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM), discusses why investors must continue to challenge their long held beliefs. Here’s an except from the interview: Jim O’Shaughnessy: This is a classic example of a practice … Read More

Investors Should Beware When They Start To See ‘Information Cascades’

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGIb1SfpvU?start=2056 During his recent interview with Tobias chats with Jim O’Shaughnessy, best selling author and Co-Chief Investment Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM), discusses why investors should beware when they start to see ‘information cascades’. Here’s an except from the interview: Jim O’Shaughnessy: The stock market is a complex adaptive … Read More

(Ep.13) The Acquirers Podcast: Jim O’Shaughnessy – What Works, Legendary Entrepreneur, Investor And Author

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Summary In this episode of The Acquirer’s Podcast Tobias chats with Jim O’Shaughnessy. Jim is Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM). He is also the author of the investment classic, What Works On Wall Street. During the interview Jim provides some great insights into: – Why … Read More

Value portfolios formed on price-to-earnings are underperforming glamour for the longest time *EVER* going back to 1951 — 9 years

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The chart below shows the relative performance (blue, left-hand side) and underperformance from the nearest peak (orange, right-hand side) of equal-weighted decile portfolios formed on price-to-earnings from 1951 to April 2019. The blue line (left-hand side) is the cumulative value premium-the outperformance of value over glamour. The blue line is … Read More

As Long As Human Beings Price Securities, There Will Always Be Investment Opportunities

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUGIb1SfpvU?start=3796 During his recent interview with Tobias chats with Jim O’Shaughnessy, best selling author and Co-Chief Investment Officer at O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM), discusses why there will always be investment opportunities as long as human beings price securities. Here’s an except from the interview: Jim O’Shaughnessy: People used to say … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Reads 5/31/2019

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Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Five Lessons from History (Collaborative Fund) What I Learned from Doing a Financial Plan (The Irrelevant Investor) Jeff Bezos: Big Things Start Small (Farnam Street) The David Bowie Hedge When Buying a Home (A Wealth of Common Sense) Danger Ahead (Humble Dollar) This is Why … Read More

The SMID-Cap Universe Provides Greater Opportunities Over Large And Small Caps – Here’s Why

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx47JRpbWaw?start=2508 During his recent interview with Tobias, Ben Claremon, the Principal and Portfolio Manager at Cove Street Capital outlines the reasons why he believes the SMID-Cap Universe provides greater opportunities over Large and Small Caps. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: You and I were at a conference … Read More

Investors Should Spend More Time Focusing On The Culture Of The Business Behind The Stock

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx47JRpbWaw?start=1724 During his recent interview with Tobias, Ben Claremon, the Principal and Portfolio Manager at Cove Street Capital provided some great insights into how investors can better understand the culture of the business behind the stock. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: It sounds like a great process, … Read More

Successful Investors Need A Devil’s Advocate To Try To Kill Potential Investment Ideas

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx47JRpbWaw?start=1116 During his recent interview with Tobias, Ben Claremon, a Principal and Portfolio Manager at Cove Street Capital provided some great insights into why successful investors need a devil’s advocate to try to kill potential investment ideas. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Ben Claremon: And the proxy statement is … Read More