In this interview with MIT, Mohnish Pabrai discusses a missed opportunity involving Fiat Chrysler and Ferrari. Despite being deeply involved in the analysis of Fiat Chrysler, he underestimated the potential value of Ferrari. He focused on the larger picture of the company’s overall valuation and earnings potential, neglecting the significant … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: 15 Ways To Identify Market Inefficiencies
Michael Mauboussin has just released his latest paper titled – Who Is On The Other Side?. In the paper Mauboussin describes a number of inefficiencies that exist in the market, driven mainly by the optimism or pessimism of human beings. Included in the paper is Mauboussin’s Checklist for Identifying 15 Market … Read More
The Value Premium: What This Indicator Is Telling Us About The Business Cycle
Here’s a great article by George Athanassakos at The Globe and Mail. Athanassakos is a finance professor and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. He’s discussing a recent paper titled The Value Premium and Expected Business Conditions, which illustrates … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: ‘Procyclicality’- How It Drives Market Cycles To Extremes
Michael Mauboussin recently released a great paper called – Procyclicality And Its Extremes in which he discusses ‘Procyclicality’ and how it drives market cycles to extremes. He also provides indicators of procyclicality and methods for coping with, and profiting from it. Here is an excerpt from that paper: In economics, procyclical … Read More