Bill Ackman: Why We’re Selling Berkshire

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In his latest earnings call on Wednesday Bill Ackman discussed the reasons why Pershing Square is selling its stake in Berkshire Hathaway. Here’s an excerpt from the call: Bill Ackman With that when why don’t we talk about Berkshire? And Ryan, why don’t you update our investors on investment in … Read More

One Stock Superinvestors Are Buying Or Holding (14)

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As part of the weekly research here at The Acquirer’s Multiple we’re always interested in superinvestors who hold the same stocks that appear in our Acquirer’s Multiple Stock Screeners, based on their latest 13F’s. Investors such as Warren Buffett, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Seth … Read More

You’re Confused Right Now? You’re Not Alone

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During their recent episode of the VALUE: After Hours Podcast, Taylor, Brewster, and Carlisle discussed You’re Confused Right Now? You’re Not Alone. Here’s an excerpt from the episode: Bill Brewster: Yeah, no doubt. Well, good. I’m going to get into more of it. Because, I’m going to talk about how … Read More

Baumol’s Cost Disease

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During their recent episode of the VALUE: After Hours Podcast, Taylor, Brewster, and Carlisle discussed Baumol’s Cost Disease. Here’s an excerpt from the episode: Jake Taylor: I’m not going there. This 1960s economist named William Baumol. He came up with this idea that you start with this thought that imagine … Read More

David Abrams: Top Buys, Top Sells (Q1 2020)

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One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More

This Week’s Best Investing Articles, Research, Podcasts 5/22/2020

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Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: The Three Sides of Risk (Collaborative Fund) Mental Models For a Pandemic (Farnam Street) Netflix: Cooked? (behindthebalancesheet) Inequality Everywhere You Look (A Wealth of Common Sense) How Sectors are Driving Value and Growth (The Irrelevant Investor) Three things you can’t do in this world (The Reformed … Read More

Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead?

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During their recent episode of the VALUE: After Hours Podcast, Taylor, Brewster, and Carlisle discussed Cliff Asness’ recent article titled – Is (Systematic) Value Investing Dead? Here’s an excerpt from the episode: Tobias Carlisle: Yeah, I saw Cliff Asness had a third bite at the value cherry, Is (Systematic) Value Investing … Read More

Philip Carret: Trend Versus Cycle Stocks

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In Philip Carret’s book – The Art of Speculation, he provides some great insights into how to identify the difference between a ‘trend’ stock and a ‘cycle’ stock. Here’s an excerpt from the book: For many years cigarette consumption in the United States has increased year after year almost without … Read More