https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqepjONgtk?start=2669 During his recent interview with Tobias, Adrian Saville, CEO and founder of Cannon Asset Managers in South Africa, discusses how investors can find some of the best opportunities in the smallest listed companies. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: So, tell us a little bit about Indequity, … Read More
Joel Greenblatt: Here’s Why A Concentrated Portfolio Makes Sense
Here’s a great excerpt from Joel Greenblatt’s interview on Masters in Business in which he provides a great example of why a concentrated portfolio makes sense, saying: GREENBLATT: Right, well Warren Buffett has a good response to that as well. You know he says listen let’s say you sold out … Read More
The One Reason Mean Reversion Is So Powerful – This Too Shall Pass!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqepjONgtk?start=2896 During his recent interview with Tobias, Adrian Saville, CEO and founder of Cannon Asset Managers in South Africa, discusses why mean reversion is such an important factor in investing. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: And, some of that marketing collateral you sent through to me, just … Read More
Michael Burry: The Best Way For Investors To Minimize Risk Is…
Here’s a great excerpt from Michael Burry’s 2001 Scion Capital Shareholder Letter in which he discusses the best way for investors to minimize risk saying: Although an outsider might think the goal of prevailing modern investment practice to be one of mediocrity, there in fact remains much more competition to … Read More
What Are The Four Attributes Necessary To Create A Successful ‘SuperDogs’ Portfolio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLqepjONgtk?start=454 During his recent interview with Tobias, Adrian Saville, CEO and founder of Cannon Asset Managers in South Africa, discusses the four attributes necessary to create a successful ‘SuperDogs’ portfolio. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Adrian Saville: Sure, so the first attribute is to look for value in an … Read More
(Ep.19) The Acquirers Podcast: Adrian Saville – SuperDogs, Deep Value Investing In South Africa
Summary In this episode of The Acquirer’s Podcast Tobias chats with Adrian Saville, who is the CEO and founder of Cannon Asset Managers in South Africa. Since the mid-1990’s Adrian has been running portfolios full of unloved but good businesses which have returned an average of 19.8%. During the interview he … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Dalio, Griffin, Cohen 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 7/12/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Blogger wisdom: genuine surprises (Abnormal Returns) The Broker Who Saved America (The Reformed Broker) Why stock-picking skills do, in fact, exist (The Globe and Mail) ‘Super 6’ List of Deep Value Investing Thought Leaders (and their quotes) (einvesting) No A for Effort (Humble … Read More
Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett) – Top 10 Holdings Q1 2019
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
How To Find Great Investment Opportunities In Closely Held Micro-Caps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKCjW_Q5vs?start=763 During his recent interview with Tobias, small cap value manager Eric Cinnamond discusses how investors can find great investment opportunities in closely held micro-caps. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: What sort of industries are you finding opportunities in? What sort of companies, can you talk about … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: The Five Principles of Good Capital Allocation
We’ve just been re-reading Michael Mauboussin’s great paper on capital allocation titled – Capital Allocation Evidence, Analytical Methods, and Assessment Guidance. At the end of the document Mauboussin provides his five principles of good capital allocation and his conclusions. Here’s an excerpt from the paper: Five Principles of Capital Allocation. … Read More
There’s A Lot Of Value In Cyclical Commodity Stocks, But You Have To Use A Different Valuation Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKCjW_Q5vs?start=1004 During his recent interview with Tobias, small cap value manager Eric Cinnamond discusses how value investors can find opportunites in cyclical commodity stocks but it’s important to use a different valuation method. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Eric Cinnamond: Why do you think cyclicals are not appreciated by … Read More
Charlie Munger: Great Investors Can Tune Out Standard Stupidities
In 2009 Charlie Munger did a great interview with The Stanford Lawyer. During the interview Munger discusses the skills of great investors, mistakes that he sees executives making, and the problem with banks increasing leverage in order to remain competitive saying. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: You’ve often said … Read More
Great Value Investors Have A Willingness To Look Stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyKCjW_Q5vs?start=3080 During his recent interview with Tobias, small cap value manager Eric Cinnamond discusses how great value investors have a willingness to look stupid. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Tobias Carlisle: It’s been a very rough five years for valuations just because it’s been such a long cycle where … Read More
(Ep.18) The Acquirers Podcast: Eric Cinnamond – Small Value, Absolute Return Small Cap Value Management
Summary In this episode of The Acquirer’s Podcast Tobias chats with Eric Cinnamond, Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Palm Valley Capital. In 2016 he closed down a $400 million fund and returned money to investors because he believed he couldn’t find value for his clients. During the interview he … 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
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 7/5/2019
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: The Earnings Mirage: Why Corporate Profits are Overstated and What It Means for Investors (OSAM) The Best Ten Years Ever (The Irrelevant Investor) On The Benefits of Being Average (A Wealth of Common Sense) Quant Cassandra (Cliff Asness) We the Corrupt (Safal Niveshak) Fama vs … Read More
Seth Klarman – Top 10 Holdings Q1 2019
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
The Small Investor Advantage – Being Able To Make One’s Own Investing Decisions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21-Dy4vv0cc?start=1883 During his recent interview with Tobias legendary Australian fund manager Peter Simpson-Morgan, who ran Perpetual, discusses the small investor advantage and the importance for investors to be able to make their own investing decisions saying: Tobias Carlisle: How was that period of time? Peter Simpson-Morgan: Well, it’s…again, sorry to … Read More
Daniel Kahneman: Can Investors Develop Expertise In Picking Stocks?
Here’s a great excerpt from Daniel Kahneman’s Keynote Address at the Amundi World Investment Forum – AmundiWIF19. Kahneman provides his thoughts on whether investors can develop expertise in picking stocks saying: Confidence & Expertise Can you develop expertise in picking stocks? This is very doubtful. In fact, it is probably not … Read More