One of our favorite investors here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Michael Burry, founder of Scion Capital. His annual letters provide some great insights for value investors. One such example can be found in his 2001 letter in which he discusses two important concepts. The first is a mistake that … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: “The good thing about getting wealthy is we don’t need to understand a lot of things!”
Here’s a great recent video of Mohnish Pabrai’s presentation at the Peking University (Guanghua School of Management) in December, 2017. The presentation is full of a number of value investing insights but there’s one part in particular in which Pabrai provides a great example on how investing can be made much … Read More
14 Of Charlie Munger’s Funniest Quotes
Charlie Munger is known for his quick wit and sense of humor, and one of the best sources of Munger’s humorous quotes is Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Here are fourteen of Munger’s funniest quotes from the book: 1. I’d rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: On The One Hand… (A Wealth of Common Sense) Sometimes This Sucks (The Irrelevant Investor) Transition (The Reformed Broker) It’s Not Just LIBOR Pointing To Rising Financial Stress (The Felder Report) So Two Stoics Walk Into a Bar… (Farnam Street) Why We Listen To Bad Forecasts (Collaborative Fund) How Warren Buffett … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Appearing in Soros, Einhorn, 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, and Howard Marks. … Read More
Todd Combs: The Billionaire Whisperer
Here’s a great article at Bloomberg about Todd Combs titled – The Billionaire Whisperer Who United Bezos, Buffett and Dimon. The article provides some great insights into Combs, the young hedge fund manager who runs a significant portion of Berkshire’s investment portfolio, and is being heavily touted as Buffett’s successor. … Read More
Ed Thorp: The Best Thing You Can Do Is To Educate Yourself To Think Clearly And Rationally
Here’s a great interview with Ed Thorp at Barron’s in which Thorp discusses how he was able to beat the casinos. How the stock market is like a casino. His current portfolio. And some of the important lessons he’s learnt in investing. An excerpt from that article: In 1962, the … Read More
Seth Klarman: Investing Requires A Degree Of Arrogance Tempered With The Humility Of Knowing We Could Be Wrong
Several years ago Jason Zweig did a great interview with Seth Klarman titled – Opportunities for Patient Investors, which was published by the CFA Institute. While the entire interview provides a number of value investing insights, one answer in particular provides a unique insight into Klarman’s psychology towards investing saying: “In … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: Here’s Why It’s So Difficult For Analysts and Investment Managers To Calculate Future Earnings
One of our favorite Mohnish Pabrai articles is one he wrote called – Astronomers, Astronauts and Styles of Investing. It provides some great insights into why it’s so difficult for analysts and investment managers to calculate the future earnings of a company and make their forecasts. Here’s an excerpt from … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Finding Deep Value Stocks with the Acquirer’s Multiple (blog.validea.com) Understanding Speed and Velocity: Saying “NO” to the Non-Essential (Farnam Street) Some Perspective on Investing Advice (A Wealth of Common Sense) The Easy Pickings (The Irrelevant Investor) How The Passive Investing Mania Undermined Its Most Basic Assumption, Part … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Appearing in Klarman, Simons, Griffin 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
Bill Ackman: How To Identify Great Businesses For Investment
Here’s a great interview by Advisor Perspectives with Bill Ackman. During the interview Ackman discusses his investment strategy, how to define a great business, how to construct a portfolio, the importance of an active approach to investing, and why maintaining a high public profile is important in the execution of … Read More
Prem Watsa: We Think This Will Be A ‘‘Stock Pickers’’ Market In Which A Value investor Like Us Can Thrive
We’ve just had a read through the latest annual shareholder letter from Fairfax Financial Holdings in which Prem Watsa is predicting a rosy future for value investors. Here’s an excerpt from that letter: I like to review all our annual reports before I begin writing the most recent one. I … Read More
Seth Klarman: What Is An Appropriate Margin of Safety Before Making An Investment
Margin of Safety, by Seth Klarman is one of the best books ever written on investing and a must read for all investors. One of the most important investing concepts discussed in the book is the ‘margin of safety’, popularized by Ben Graham. Seth Klarman describes the ‘margin of safety’ … Read More
Carl Icahn: The Genesis Of The Great Corporate Activist
One of the best books written about Carl Icahn is King Icahn: Biography of a Renegade Capitalist, by Mark Stevens. The book is the story of a man who rose from humble beginnings to emerge as one of the the most powerful activists in corporate America. Two passages in particular encapsulate … Read More
This Week’s Best Investing Reads
Here is a list of this week’s best investing reads: Goldilocks And The Liquidity Bears (The Felder Report) The Race to A Trillion (The Irrelevant Investor) What Really Fueled The Bull (The Reformed Broker) Half Life: The Decay of Knowledge and What to Do About It (Farnam Street) The Power of Narrative (A Wealth of Common Sense) Ironies of Luck (Collaborative … Read More
Acquirer’s Multiple Stocks Appearing In Dalio, Greenblatt, O’Shaughnessy 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
Mohnish Pabrai: How To Calculate DCF Simply And Compare Prospective Investments
One of the best books written on investing is The Dhando Investor, by Mohnish Pabrai. There’s one passage in the book in which Pabrai demonstrates how to calculate intrinsic value simply, and how you can use the calculation to compare prospective investments. Here’s an excerpt from the book: The advantages … Read More
Walter Schloss: What Kind Of Stocks Do We Look At For Investment
In 1993 Walter Schloss gave a great presentation called – Upper Level Seminar In Value Investing, at the Columbia Business School. Schloss’ notes for the presentation included a number of timeless investing lessons including the kinds of stocks he looks at for investment, how to scale into an investment, and … Read More
Jesse Livermore: 10 Investing Lessons From Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefevre, is a classic investing book that focuses on the character Larry Livingston. Which is really a depiction of Jesse Livermore, one of the most highly regarded traders of all time. The book provides a number of classic investing lessons to help investors deal with … Read More