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
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Cohen, Greenblatt, Dalio 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, Ray Dalio, … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 10/05/2018
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Different Kinds of Smart (Collaborative Fund) What If Stocks Don’t Crash… (A Wealth of Common Sense) Excellent Article: The Psychology of Money (csinvesting) Sex on the Beach with Montaigne and Descartes (Farnam Street) The Nine Essential Conditions to Commit Massive Fraud (The Reformed Broker) The End is Nigh (The Irrelevant Investor) “In Defense of … Read More
Sequoia Fund Q3 2018 Letter: David Poppe Retiring
The Sequoia Fund recently released its Q3 2018 Letter. For the third quarter of 2018, Sequoia Fund generated a total return of 4.01%, net of fees, versus a 7.71% return for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. The Fund generated an 11.45% total return year-to-date through September 30, 2018 versus a 10.56% return … Read More
Mark Sellers: So You Want To Be The Next Warren Buffett
Some years ago hedge fund manager Mark Sellers of Sellers Capital gave a great speech to a group of Harvard MBA students titled – So You Want To Be The Next Warren Buffett? How’s Your Writing? Sellers did not mince his words when he discussed the difficulty of becoming a great investor … Read More
Stanley Druckenmiller: Algos Have Taken The Rhythm Out Of The Market
Here’s a great video with Stanley Druckenmiller at Real Vision discussing the impact that algorithms are having on his investing strategy saying: “These algos have taken all the rhythm out of the market and have become extremely confusing to me.” Here’s an excerpt from that video: Druckenmiller: I’ve also struggled … Read More
T Boone Pickens – 6 Timeless Lessons For Investors
Earlier this year T Boone Pickens wrote a great article at Forbes called – Ninety Years Of Lessons Learned: T. Boone Pickens’ Letter To The Class Of 2018. In it he provided six key lessons, or what he calls ‘Booneisms’, which are very useful in the world of investing. Here’s … Read More
Cliff Asness: What Type Of Diversification Works Best During The Worst Of Times
Cliff Asness and the team at AQR recently released a great paper titled – It Was the Worst of Times: Diversification During a Century of Drawdowns. The paper uses nearly 100 years of data to evaluate the effectiveness of diversifying investments during the worst of times for most portfolios. Here’s the summary and … Read More
John Rogers: How To Beat The Index By 100 Basis Points Every Year
Here’s a great interview with John Rogers and Charlie Bobrinskoy from Ariel Investments. The Ariel portfolio is currently valued at $8.91 Billion, and has been regularly beating the index by 100 basis points per year. So how do they do it? Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Don’t you hear all … Read More
Einhorn’s Worst Year Ever: Greenlight Losses Swell to 26%
Bloomberg recently reported that David Einhorn’s hedge fund Greenlight Capital has had its worse year ever saying: Greenlight Capital, the hedge fund led by David Einhorn, lost 1.3 percent in September as U.S. stocks edged higher. Greenlight’s main fund declined 26.1 percent in the first three quarters of 2018, on … Read More
Dan Loeb: 5 Books That Every Investor Should Read
We recently started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided 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 Ackman: … Read More
TAM Stock Screener – Stocks Appearing in Cohen, Greenblatt, 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, Ray Dalio, … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 09/28/2018
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Winner Takes it All: How Markets Favor the Few at the Expense of the Many (Farnam Street) Knowledge vs. Skill (A Wealth of Common Sense) Dear Future Me (Above The Market) Make No Mistake (The Reformed Broker) Meditations on Mortality in Life and Investing (Safal Niveshak) Value Vs. Growth Stocks: Growth … Read More
Murray Stahl: Top 10 Holdings, New Buys, Sold Out Positions
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
Howard Marks: Latest Memo – The Seven Worst Words In The World
Howard Marks has just released his latest memo which focuses on today’s economic environment compared to 2008 saying: “Thus the idea for this memo came from the seven worst words in the investment world: “too much money chasing too few deals.” Here’s an excerpt from that memo: I have a … Read More
Peter Lynch: Even The Great Investors Need A Little Bit Of Luck
Here’s a great interview with value investing legend Peter Lynch in which he discusses how he made his first stock pick a 10-Bagger. This illustrates the point that all investors, even the great ones, need a little bit of luck, in terms of timing. Here’s an excerpt from that interview: … Read More
Howard Marks: 6 Classic Investment Mistakes That Every Investor Should Avoid
In his 2006 memo titled ‘Pigweed’ Howard Marks provided investors with six classic investment mistakes that every investor should avoid using the real-life case study of hedge fund – Amaranth Advisors. Amaranth Advisors was an American multi-strategy hedge fund founded by Nicholas Maounis and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. During its peak, the firm had up to … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: Five Common Mistakes That Investors Make
Here’s a great video by Michael Mauboussin in which he highlights five common mistakes that investors make. These are: 1. “First is it is really important to try to minimize your own mistakes.” 2. “The second big mistake is the failure to understand regression toward the mean.” 3. “The third … Read More
Prem Watsa: 12 Books That Every Investor Should Read
We recently started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided 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 Ackman: … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads 09/21/2018
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: Predicting the Future with Bayes’s Theorem (Farnam Street) Jeff Bezos with David Rubenstein at the Economic Club of Washington DC (The Reformed Broker) Revisiting the Fall of 2008 (A Wealth of Common Sense) Fool Me Three Times And I Give Up (Collaborative Fund) Siegel vs. Shiller: Is the Stock … Read More