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Charles Munger: The Most Important Investing Trick I Learnt From My Grandfather
We’ve just been watching Charlie Munger at the latest Daily Journal meeting in which he recounts the most important investing trick he learnt from his grandfather, saying: I had a grandfather who was very useful to me. My mother’s grandfather. He was a pioneer. He came out to Iowa with … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 2/15/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient (Farnam Street) How to Wreck a Pension Plan in 3 Easy Steps (A Wealth of Common Sense) History Is Written By The Victors (The Financial Bodyguard) January 2019 Data Update 8: Dividends and Buybacks – Fact and Fiction (Aswath Damodaran) Miss the Worst Days, Miss … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Dalio, Fisher, Greenblatt 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
Ray Dalio – Top 10 Holdings
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Seth Klarman: The Proper Wiring for a Long-Term Investor
In Seth Klarmans’ latest shareholder letter he writes successful investing is like being a successful relief pitcher, saying: Consider the plight of a relief pitcher. Historically undervalued, unappreciated, often used interchangeably with other relievers, and, until recently, low on the major league pay scale. Required to be ready throughout most … Read More
Warren Buffett: How’s That For A Strategic Plan?
In the 1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter, Warren Buffett describes his and Munger’s suprising strategic plan for finding their big investment ideas, saying: “Using my academic voice, I have told you in the past of the drag that a mushrooming capital base exerts upon rates of return. Unfortunately, my academic voice is … Read More
Charles Munger: EMT – The Stock Market Ain’t Like Physics, It’s Like A Mob At A Football Game
Here’s a great short video with Charles Munger talking about The Efficient Market Theory saying: “Well I think we’ve had some effect, but they’re still teaching The Efficient Market Theory. Remember the old ideas die hard. And by the way it’s roughly right. It’s just the very hard form which … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 2/8/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: The Best Hedge Fund Manager of All Time Is… (Institutional Investor) Even God Couldn’t Beat Dollar-Cost Averaging (Of Dollars & Data) Simple vs. Complex, 2018 Edition (A Wealth of Common Sense) Compounding Knowledge (Farnam Street) If This Isn’t Stock Manipulation, I Don’t Know What Is (The Felder Report) Two … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Pabrai, Spier, Greenblatt 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
Howard Marks: Top 10 Holdings
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
James Montier: What’s The Key Lesson Investors Can Learn From Templeton, Soros, Berkowitz and Steinhardt
One of the best books ever written on Behavioral Investing is – The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by James Montier. There’s a great passage in the book in which Montier emphasises the key lesson that investors can learn from the world’s greatest investors saying: Small manageable steps are likely to … Read More
14 Books That Every Investor Should Read: Columbia Business School (Security Analysis Course)
We recently started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided the book recommendations from: Charles Munger: 32 Books That Every Investor Should Read Seth Klarman: 32 Books That Every Investor Should Read Warren Buffett: 35 Books That Every Investor Should Read Bill … Read More
Charles Munger: Munger’s Rule!
Every time we listen to Charles Mungers’ famous speech titled – The Psychology of Human Misjudgement, we learn something new. One example is Munger’s example of the problem with having a ‘Board of Directors’ in American companies, saying: Finally the institution of the board of directors of a major human … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Greenblatt, Miller, Ainslie 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 2/1/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Yuval Noah Harari: Why We Dominate the Earth (Farnam Street) Who Owns All the Stocks & Bonds? (A Wealth of Common Sense) Origins of Greed and Fear (Collaborative Fund) The Single Greatest Error (The Irrelevant Investor) Value investing is long on virtue but has been short on reward … Read More
Prem Watsa: Top 10 Holdings
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
Seth Klarman: How To Increase The Likelihood Of Achieving Sustainable Gains With Limited Downside Risk Over The Long-Run
In his latest Baupost Sharholder Letter, Seth Klarman provides some great advice for investors on how to increase the likelihood of achieving sustainable gains with limited downside risk over the long-run saying: “We believe another key element in portfolio management is curtailing the duration (the weighted average life) of one’s … Read More
Howard Marks: How Can Investors Become Effective Contrarians
We’ve just been re-reading Howard Mark’s 2009 Memo – Touchstones. In the memo Marks provides some great insights into how investors can become more effective contrarians saying: Resisting – and thereby achieving success as a contrarian – isn’t easy. Things combine to make it difficult, including natural herd tendencies and … Read More
Charles Munger: If Mozart Can’t Get By With This Kind Of Asinine Conduct I Don’t Think You Should Try
Here’s some more classic Munger. During his USC Law Commencement Speech, Munger provides some insights into counteracting the self serving bias, which includes overspending ones income, saying: (6:38) “Another thing of course that does one in is the self-serving bias to which we’re all subject.” “You think that your ‘little me’ is entitled … Read More