Here’s a great article from Barron’s which discusses the future of value investing. Here is an excerpt from that article: Quick: Name a famous investor. Whether you thought of a celebrity like Warren Buffett, a less famous (but no less successful) hedge fund manager like Seth Klarman, or reached into … Read More
John Maynard Keynes: Only In The Stockmarket Do We Frequently Attempt To Revalue Businesses Hourly, Daily, And Weekly
One of the best books ever written on investing and investor psychology is – The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes. One passage in particular illustrates how the stock market is the only medium in which we frequently attempt to revalue businesses hourly, weekly, and monthly. … Read More
Charlie Munger: The Stock Picking Industry Is Four Or Five Percent Super-Rational, Disciplined People, And The Rest Of Them Are Sort Of Like Faith-Healers Or Shamans
One of the best resources for investors are the Daily Journal Annual Meetings chaired by Charles Munger. During the 2015 Annual Meeting Munger was asked the following question regarding indexing and what it might lead to: “Indexing has grown a lot in the last thirty years or so as a form … Read More
Seth Klarman: Interplanetary Visitors Would Question Our Intelligence If They Examined The Behavior Of Financial Market Participants
One of the best book’s ever written on investing is Margin of Safety, by Seth Klarman. In one passage in particular Klarman illustrates how interplanetary visitors would question the intelligence of human beings if they examined the behavior of financial market participants. Here is an excerpt from that book: If interplanetary visitors … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: 50 Ways The World is Getting Better (A Wealth of Common Sense) How? (The Irrelevant Investor) How The Flattening Yield Curve Could Lead To A Bear Market For Stocks (The Felder Report) We Only Get to Experience One Version of Reality (The Reformed Broker) Go Fast and Break … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Appearing in Dalio, Simons, Greenblatt 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, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and … Read More
James Montier: “Finance Has Turned The Art Of Transforming The Simple Into The Perplexing Into An Industry”
Some years ago James Montier wrote a great paper called – Was It All Just A Bad Dream? Or, Ten Lessons Not Learnt. Montier’s states that we can learn a great deal about investing by looking back at the mistakes that gave rise to the worst period in markets since the Great Depression … Read More
Howard Marks: The Two Main Risks In The Investment World
One of the best resources for investors are Howard Marks’ memos. One of our favorite memos here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is one he wrote called – Warning Signs in which Marks discusses the two main risks in the investment world. Here is an excerpt from that memo: For about … Read More
Interview with Brad Lamensdorf of The ActiveAlts Contrarian ETF (NASDAQ: SQZZ)
Tobias Carlisle (TC): Today I have with me Brad Lamensdorf, who has an interesting background. He started his career in hedge funds working for the Bass family in Texas, ran his own partnership successfully for a number of years and then became a short seller helping to co-manage and launch … Read More
Charlie Munger: The Parable Of Basicland
Several years ago, Charles Munger wrote a great piece called – Basically, It’s Over – A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin. Munger provides a cautionary warning through the story of a fictional place called ‘Basicland’. A large, unpopulated island in the Pacific Ocean that is rich in … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: My Berkshire Hathaway Reflections (Farnam Street) The U.S. Stock Market’s Impressive Outperformance May Be Coming To An End (The Felder Report) More Than Never. Less Than Always (A Wealth of Common Sense) The Most Hated Tax Cut Ever? (The Reformed Broker) The What-Ifs (The Irrelevant Investor) Buffett at his Best (csinvesting) Some Things … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Appearing in Pzena, Simons, Grantham 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, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and … Read More
Daniel Kahneman: The Illusion of Stock-Picking Skill
For the majority of stock pickers successful investing is thought to be based on some degree of skill. The truth is however that successful stock picking for most amateur and professional investors is due mainly to ‘luck’ not skill. Everyone knows investing is important, but it can also be overwhelming. … Read More
Warren Buffett: The Prototype Of A Dream Business
Warren Buffett has often spoken about the importance of a business moat. In a presentation to the MBA students at the University of Florida Buffett said: “I want a business with a moat around it. I want a very valuable castle in the middle… and then I want the Duke who’s … Read More
Charlie Munger Can Be Merciless If He Believes He Has Caught Someone In An Act Of Silly Self-Deception
One of the most commonly used terms in the world of investing is – Cost of Capital. According to the Harvard Business Review website: – “The cost of capital is simply the return expected by those who provide capital for the business”. Warren Buffett provides his own explanation for the cost … Read More
Seth Klarman: “Most Investments Are Dependent On Outcomes That Cannot Be Accurately Foreseen”
Much has been written about the best way to calculate the present and future values of a business for investment. But as Seth Klarman points out in his book – Margin of Safety, the reality is: “Even if the present could somehow be perfectly understood, most investments are dependent on outcomes … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: EVERYTHING You need to understand Markets (csinvesting) First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge (Farnam Street) Why We May Be Headed For Another ‘Minsky Moment’ (The Felder Report) Here We Go Again? (The Irrelevant Investor) Will it hold? (The Reformed Broker) How the Bear Stearns Meltdown Wrecked Something More Valuable … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Appearing in Greenblatt, Simons, Gabelli, Paulson, 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, Seth Klarman, Ray Dalio, and … Read More
Active Managers Shifting To Smaller, More Focused Portfolios To Achieve Outperformance
Here’s a great article at Bloomberg that discusses the changing landscape for active investors. The article reports that more and more active managers are moving to smaller, more focused portfolios. The logic behind the shift is that a smaller, more focused portfolio is more likely to achieve outperformance as it … Read More
Seth Klarman: Mainstream Investing Has It Backwards
Some years ago Seth Klarman gave a fantastic speech at the MIT Sloan Investment Management Club. During his speech Klarman suggested that the mainstream approach to investing has is backwards saying: “Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is … Read More