James Montier: Growth Stocks Are The Attractive Defendants Of The Finance World

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In his book – Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment, James Montier provides a great illustration of the human bias towards growth/glamour stocks. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Interestingly a recent psychology study may well relate to these findings. Taylor and Butcher (2007) gave 96 students identical accounts … Read More

James Montier: The Dangers Of Diversification

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In his book – Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment, James Montier discusses the dangers of diversification. Here’s an excerpt from the book: If religion has been the cause of most wars, then ‘diversification’ lies close to the heart of many financial disasters. All too often, too narrow … Read More

James Montier: Anyone Can Create Their Own Currency

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In his latest white paper titled – Part 2: What to Do in the Case of Sustained Inflation, James Montier discusses hedges against sustained inflation. He also discusses a simple thought experiment on the difficulties of creating your own currency, digital or otherwise. Here’s an excerpt from the paper: There … Read More

James Montier: Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?

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James Montier recently released a great paper titled – Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?, Groupthink in Economics. In the paper he argues that MMT is misunderstood by the ‘great and the good’ such as Rogoff, Krugman, and Summers, saying: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) seems to provoke a visceral reaction amongst … Read More

James Montier: What’s The Key Lesson Investors Can Learn From Templeton, Soros, Berkowitz and Steinhardt

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One of the best books ever written on Behavioral Investing is – The Little Book of Behavioral Investing by James Montier. There’s a great passage in the book in which Montier emphasises the key lesson that investors can learn from the world’s greatest investors saying: Small manageable steps are likely to … Read More

James Montier: How To Protect Yourself From Wall Street’s ‘Self-Serving’ Biases

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In his book – The Little Book of Behavioral Investing, James Montier wrote a great passage on how investors can identify and protect themselves from becoming victims of Wall Street’s self-serving biases. Here’s an excerpt from that book: So much for nature. Nurture also helps to generate the generally rose-tinted … Read More

James Montier: You Can Turn Behavioral Biases Into An Advantage Using A Valuation-Based Framework

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We’ve just been listening to a great interview with James Montier on Meb Faber’s podcast. During the interview Montier provides some great insights to help investors protect themselves from their behavioral biases. Montier says that you can actually turn behavioral biases, like anchoring, into an advantage using a valuation-based framework. … Read More

Forget Wall Street! 5 Stages of a Humble Investing Strategy – James Montier

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James Montier is a member of GMO’s Asset Allocation team. Prior to joining GMO in 2009, he was co-head of Global Strategy at Société Générale. Montier is an expert in behavioral investing and the author of several books including: Behavioural Investing: A Practitioner’s Guide to Applying Behavioural Finance Value Investing: Tools … Read More