In his recent interview with CNBC, Mohnish Pabrai explained how to tell which businesses will do well in an inflationary environment. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Pabrai: If you have a business where most of the capex has already happened in the past, they would be deriving the benefits … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: The Genius Of Warren Buffett’s Japanese Bets
In his recent interview with FINSEC Law Advisor, Mohnish Pabrai discusses the genius of Warren Buffet’s Japanese bets. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Pabrai: Two or three years ago Buffett made an investment, a set of investments, where he bought five to ten percent stakes in a bunch of … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: One Of The Most Valuable Investing Lessons I Learned For Charlie Munger
In his recent interview on the Richer Wiser, Happier, Podcast, Mohnish Pabrai discussed one of the more important investing lessons he learned from Charlie Munger. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Pabrai: I think Charlie’s… what I’ve found with Charlie is sometimes I bring up businesses to him that I’m … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: You Only Need A Minority Of Investments To Get You To The Promised Land
In his latest interview with The Investor’s Podcast, Mohnish Pabrai explains why you only need a minority of investments to get you to the promised land. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Pabrai: I’ve made a lot of mistakes. So that’s just, I would say part for the course. John … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: The One Question You Need To Answer Before You Can Value Any Business
In his recent interview with the Doctors Investing Group, Mohnish Pabrai discusses the one question you need to answer before you can value any business. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Pabrai: I think the first question one should focus on is whether the business is within your circle of … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: 4 Great Questions Answered On The Current State Of Value Investing
Mohnish Pabrai recently did an interview with Morningstar in which he answered four great questions on the current state of value investing, and its prospects in the future. Here are the four questions: Q1. Is there an economic reason why small-company and value stocks have performed well historically? Q2. Has … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: 2 Investing Lessons I Have Yet To Learn Well
Here’s a great presentation with Mohnish Pabrai at Boston College (Carroll School of Mgmt). During the presentation he spoke about the two investing lessons he has yet to learn well. Here’s an excerpt from the presentation: So someone like me is still trying to learn to pay up and it’s … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: How To Beat Wall Street With Third Grade Math
In Monish Pabrai’s book, The Dhando Investor, he provides a real-life illustration of how, with third grade math, you can beat Wall Street if you’re prepared to do a little research. Here’s an excerpt from the book: A good case study of a low-risk, high-uncertainty business is the situation with … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: At The Core, Investing Is Straightforward. It’s Simple, But It’s Not Easy
In the latest edition of the Graham & Doddsville Newsletter, there’s a great interview with Mohnish Pabrai in which he discusses his investing philosophy saying: “At the core, investing is straightforward. It’s simple, but it’s not easy.” Here’s an excerpt for that interview: G&D: Can you talk in more detail … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: Q2 2019 Top 10 Holdings
One of the best resources for investors are the publicly available 13F-HR documents that each fund is required to submit to the SEC. These documents allow investors to track their favorite superinvestors, their fund’s current holdings, plus their new buys and sold out positions. We spend a lot of time … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: One Doesn’t Need To Have A Swiss Army Knife Approach To Investing
During his recent interview with MOI Global, Mohnish Pabrai explains how investors can successfully build plenty of wealth in investing with a narrow skill-set, saying: “One doesn’t need to have a Swiss Army Knife approach to investing. If you look at most entrepreneurs, they’ve created their wealth with an extremely … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: Great Stock Selection Starts With Rejecting New Investment Opportunities For The Flimsiest Possible Reasons
Here’s a great interview with Mohnish Pabrai and The London Business School. During the interview Pabrai discusses his stock selection process, which he says starts with getting rid of new investment opportunities for the flimsiest possible reason. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Mohnish Pabrai: I’ll give it a shot … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai – Investors Can Take Advantage When Markets Get Confused Between Risk And Uncertainty
At his recent presentation at Trinity College in Dublin, Mohnish Pabrai explained how investors can take advantage when markets get confused between risk and uncertainty, saying: If you have a business which exhibits very high uncertainty then that business generally will get very extreme kind of valuations in a auction … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: The Ten Commandments of Investment Management
We’ve just been watching a recent presentation with Mohnish Pabrai at the Carroll School of Management – Boston College. Pabrai is discussing his ten commandments of investment management as follows: 1. Thou shall not skim off the top [fees] 2. Thou shalt not have an investment team 3. Thou shalt … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: 20 Books That Every Investor Should Read
We recently started a series called – Superinvestors: Books That Every Investor Should Read. So far we’ve provided book recommendations from: Charles Munger: 32 Books That Every Investor Should Read Seth Klarman: 32 Books That Every Investor Should Read Warren Buffett: 35 Books That Every Investor Should Read Bill Ackman: … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: Volatility Is The Friend Of A Long-Term Investor
Here’s a great recent interview with Mohnish Pabrai at The Economic Times. Pabrai discusses how he finds opportunities in todays bull market, portfolio concentration, his investing checklist, cloning, and why he’s shifted his stock-picking focus from the U.S to India saying: “One of the reasons it’s probably becoming harder is … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai’s Advice For Value Investors – Forbes
Here’s a great recent interview with Mohnish Pabrai and Kevin Harris at SumZero in which Pabrai provides some valuable investing insights: Kevin Harris: What or who have been your most important investing influences? Mohnish Pabrai: That’s an easy one. My important influences have been Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger. I … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: The Yellowstone Factor In Investing
Some years ago Mohnish Pabrai wrote a great piece about valuing investments called – The Yellowstone Factor. In the article Pabrai provided some great insights on the importance of not relying on absolute and precise mathematics in investing saying: “Investing is not a discipline based on absolutes or precise mathematics. There simply … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai: “We can do really well in the business even if we don’t understand 98% of the markets and the companies in them”
Here’s a great recent interview with Mohnish Pabrai and the folks at ET. During the interview Pabrai provided a number of valuable insights on his value investing approach. Here are some excerpts from that interview: High-uncertainty businesses coupled with low-risk result in high returns… Pabrai: It’s very interesting because stock … 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