https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtGtzUuA3o?start=1187 During his recent interview with Tobias. Phil Bak of Exponential ETFs discusses how investors can use consumer satisfaction surveys to capture alpha. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: So just to go back to the ACSI, the consumer sentiment … Is it consumer sentiment? Phil Bak: Satisfaction. … Read More
16 Of The Best Books On The History of Finance & Investing
Our Recommended Books for Superinvestors Some time ago we 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 … Read More
Investors Can Extrapolate The Premium Provided By An Equal Weight Portfolio Versus Market Cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtGtzUuA3o?start=498 During his recent interview with Tobias. Phil Bak of Exponential ETFs discusses how investors can extrapolate the premium which is provided by equal weight portfolio versus market cap, saying: Well, I think it really started and like you said, with equal weights. My background, I was at Ridex Investments, … Read More
How Can Investors Use ‘Reverse Market Cap’ To Generate Excess Returns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdtGtzUuA3o?start=71 During his recent interview with Tobias, Phil Bak of Exponential ETFs explains how investors can use ‘Reverse Market Cap’ to generate excess returns, saying: So reverse cap is very simple. We take the … In this case it’s on the S&P 500, and we take the index constituents of … Read More
(Ep.5) The Acquirers Podcast: Phil Bak of Exponential ETFs – How Reverse Cap Beats The Market (Cap)
In Episode 5 of the The Acquirers Podcast, Tobias chats with Phil Bak of Exponential ETFs. During the interview Phil, who is an expert in ETF’s, provides some great insights into: How Investors Can Use ‘Reverse Market Cap’ To Generate Excess Returns The Market Doesn’t Care Where You Live – … Read More
James Montier: Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?
James Montier recently released a great paper titled – Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?, Groupthink in Economics. In the paper he argues that MMT is misunderstood by the ‘great and the good’ such as Rogoff, Krugman, and Summers, saying: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) seems to provoke a visceral reaction amongst … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Soros, Dalio, Simons 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 4/5/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Howard Marks Memo – Growing The Pie (Oaktree) Ray Dalio – Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed (Part 1) (LinkedIn) How is the Market Doing? (The Irrelevant Investor) Stock Investors: You Have Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself (Vitaliy Katsenelson) Real Estate … Read More
Warren Buffett – Top 10 Holdings Q4 2018
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
Herding In Investing Significantly Impairs An Investor’s Ability To Generate Market Beating Returns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNPDU7Pqak?start=3356 During his recent interview with Tobias, Mark Jones of Pragmatic Capital provided some great insights into why ‘herding’ in investing significantly impairs an investor’s ability to generate market-beating returns, saying: Mark Jones: I think there’s a lot of herding in investing and I think that that significantly impairs an … Read More
Smart Investors Use Put and Call Options To Hedge Stock Positions Before An Earnings Call
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNPDU7Pqak?start=2528 During his recent interview with Tobias, Mark Jones of Pragmatic Capital discusses how investors can use put and call options to hedge their stock positions prior to an earnings call, saying: Mark Jones: Right, so when I’m looking at these derivatives, I’m using them primarily for two reasons. One … Read More
Michael Mauboussin – You’ve Bought A Stock, It Goes Down – Are You Still Right Or Are You Wrong?
We’ve just been listening to Michael Mauboussin’s interview with Patrick O’Shaughnessy on his podcast, Invest Like The Best. During the interview Mauboussin provides some great insights into what investors can do if they’ve added a stock to their portfolio, and it goes down. Are they still right or are they … Read More
How To Find Contrarian Stocks That Generate Outsized Returns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LNPDU7Pqak?start=182 During his recent interview with Tobias, Mark Jones of Pragmatic Capital describes his approach to finding contrarian stocks that provide outsized returns, saying: Mark Jones: Right, so I have a four-step research process and this is how I vet or I audit the market’s point of view. I find … Read More
(Ep.4) The Acquirers Podcast: Mark Jones of Pragmatic Capital – How To Find Contrarian Stocks
In Episode 4 of the The Acquirers Podcast, Tobias chats with Mark Jones of Pragmatic Capital. Mark has an unusual approach to picking stocks and it works. It’s made him the top-ranked analyst in SumZero on a last 12 months basis. During the interview Mark discusses: How To Find Contrarian Stocks … Read More
George Soros – Top 10 Holdings Q4 2018
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This Week’s Best Investing Reads 3/29/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: In the face of adversity, are you a Guernsey or a Brahman? (Farnam Street) ROCE-Growth Matrix, and Few Potential Wealth Creators (Safal Niveshak) One more elephant for Berkshire? (The Reformed Broker) Spotting Investment Opportunities In Out Of Favor Industries (Forbes) 2019 Ivey Value Investing … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Greenblatt, Dalio, Griffin 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
In Investing The Counter To Fooled By Randomness Is Fooled By Narrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwkEbI1gKmk?start=3044 During his recent interview with Tobias, Corey Hoffsten provides some great insights into how investors can be fooling themselves by coming up with a narrative and then data-mining the facts to fit that narrative, saying: Corey: Yeah, I think it sounds wonderful and flowery and intuitive to say, “Hey, … Read More
Seth Klarman – Unsuccessful Investors Are Dominated By Emotion
One of the best books ever written on investing is Margin of Safety, by Seth Klarman. There’s one passage in particular in which Klarman discusses behaviors to avoid in order to achieve success in investing, saying: Unsuccessful investors are dominated by emotion. Rather than responding coolly and rationally to market … Read More
How And When You Rebalance Your Portfolio Can Significantly Impact Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwkEbI1gKmk?start=402 During his recent interview with Tobias, Corey Hoffstein was asked about the how and when of rebalancing a portfolio and the impact that timing can have on results. Here’s the question from Tobias and Corey’s insightful response: Tobias: So I find that particularly interesting, and it’s something that you … Read More