Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Questions For the Next Bear Market (A Wealth of Common Sense) The Falling Marginal Productivity of Debt (csinvesting) The ‘Index Of The Volume Of Speculation’ Hits A New Record High (The Felder Report) Why Doesn’t More Money Make Us Happy? (The Irrelevant Investor) The Next Warren Buffett Will Be … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Featuring In Dalio, Greenblatt, Simons Portfolios
One of the new weekly additions 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 Ray Dalio, Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, and Howard Marks. … Read More
Outperformance Means Living Through Periods of Underperformance
In Berkshire Hathaway’s latest annual shareholder letter Warren Buffett provides a great illustration of how price randomness in the short term can obscure longterm growth in value. His following real-life example demonstrates that in order to achieve longterm outperformance investors must suffer through periods of significant underperformance. Here’s an excerpt … Read More
Charlie Munger: The Importance of Planck Knowledge or Knowledgeable Investing
Warren Buffett has often been quoted on the importance of knowledgeable investing and equally important – knowing what you don’t know. Two of his most famous quotes on the subject are: “What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define … Read More
Warren Buffett: Investing Lessons Learnt From ‘That’ Bet
In 2007 Warren Buffett entered into a 10 year bet with Protégé Partners that the S&P 500 would outperform a selection of hedge funds over the following ten years. Last year he won that bet which resulted in the Girls Inc. of Omaha receiving $2,222,279 from his initial outlay of $318,250. In … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Changes in the Finance Industry; A Hatchet Job on Buffett (csinvesting) Your First Thought Is Rarely Your Best Thought: Lessons on Thinking (Farnam Street) Decision Regret (A Wealth of Common Sense) Defeating Nonsense with Evidence (The Reformed Broker) Amazon Adds A McDonald’s In Market Cap In The Month Of … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Featuring In Dalio, Gabelli, and Simons Portfolios
One of the new weekly additions 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 Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, Ray Dalio, and Howard Marks. … Read More
Charlie Munger: “Why Were Warren Buffett And His Creation, Berkshire Hathaway, So Unusually Successful?”
Last week the Daily Journal held its 2018 General Meeting chaired by Charles Munger. One of the key takeaways for us as small investors was when Munger said: “I do think that a very smart man who’s patient and aggressive in combination, is willing to work hard, to root around … Read More
Seth Klarman: “A Margin Of Safety Is Necessary As Investors Are Human And Do Make Mistakes”
Seth Klarman wrote an investing classic called – Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor. There’s one passage in particular in which Klarman encapsulates his entire value investing strategy saying, “A margin of safety is necessary because valuation is an imprecise art, the future is unpredictable, … Read More
WSJ: It Might Finally Be Value Stocks’ Time to Shine
Here’s a great article at the WSJ which discusses the possibility of a value investing comeback in 2018. Here’s an except from that article: A little volatility might be what value stocks need to get their mojo back. Such stocks–which tend to have slow but steady earnings growth and cheap … Read More
Charles Munger: How Do You Learn To Be A Great Investor
One of our favorite investing books here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is – Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger. One of the best passages in the book covers Charlie Munger’s response to, “How Do You Learn To Be A Great Investor?”. Here’s an excerpt from the … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here’s a list of this week’s best investing reads: The Drawbacks of Behavioral Finance During a Market Correction (A Wealth of Common Sense) Winning the Battle, Losing the War (Farnam Street) Passive My A** (The Reformed Broker) Warren Buffett Shares Stories About Two Remarkable Immigrant Small Business Owners (Yahoo Finance) Why Investors Truly Have ‘Nothing To Fear … Read More
Forbes: Market Shift Coming – Value Stocks Overtake Growth In 2018
Here’s a great article at Forbes that discusses the possibility of value investing overtaking growth in 2018. Here’s an excerpt from that article: Since March 2009, growth and value stocks have pushed the U.S. stock market forward, with the two categories swapping leadership along the way. Until 2017, that is, … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Featuring In Buffett, Greenblatt, Simons Portfolios
One of the new weekly additions 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 Joel Greenblatt, Carl Icahn, Jim Simons, Prem Watsa, Jeremy Grantham, and Howard Marks. The top … Read More
Rich Pzena: How To Be A Successful Value Investor In Disruptive Times
In his latest shareholder letter, Rich Pzena at Pzena Asset Management provides some great advice for investors who are finding it difficult to invest in disruptive times saying: “We are handling the current wave of disruptions the way we always have: by conducting intensive research to find skewed risk / … Read More
Bruce Greenwald: How To Significantly Improve Your Value Investing Strategy
Last year Bruce Greenwald did a great interview with Leslie Norton at Barron’s in which he discussed his ‘spin’ on value investing and how it can significantly improve your results. Here is an excerpt from that interview: Norton: Isn’t value investing about buying cheap stocks? Greenwald: There’s a Graham and … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: What Is Most Misunderstood About Value Investing Today
Here’s a great interview at Forbes in which Kevin Harris from SumZero chats with Michael Mauboussin about value investing, active management, and the state of the market. Part of the interview includes Mauboussin’s thoughts on what is most misunderstood about the discipline of value investing today? Here’s an excerpt from … Read More
Charlie Munger: How To Value A Business Or Company
One of the best resources for investors are the Daily Journal Annual meetings chaired by Charles Munger. These meetings are full of valuable investing insights for investors. One example is the 2016 Annual Meeting in which Munger was asked, “What do you use to value a business or a company? … Read More
Market Volatility Is A Value Investor’s Best Friend
Here’s a great article by Gary Smith at MarketWatch. Smith, the author of “Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing” illustrates how market volatility provides great opportunities for value investors saying: “In fact, stock market volatility is a value investor’s best friend. Stock prices fluctuate far more than … Read More
Warren Buffett: How To Use Phil Fisher’s Scuttlebutt Method Today
Last year Warren Buffett did a great interview with Becky Quick at CNBC in which he discussed how he uses Phil Fisher’s ‘Scuttlebutt Method’ for finding investments. Phil Fisher wrote a investing classic called, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Scuttlebutt means rumors or gossip about a particular product or company from … Read More