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
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
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
Mohnish Pabrai – Recommends 7 Top Investing Books… And Two Websites To Become A Better Investor
Mohnish Pabrai recently did a great presentation for the 2018 Dakshana students at JNV Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, in India. At the start of the presentation Pabrai made a recommendation to the students to read the following seven books and two websites to become a better investor: 1. The 1957 – … Read More
Charlie Munger – How Can Professional Investors, With Thorough Analysis, Continue To Underperform
Here’s a great presentation by Mohnish Pabrai to the folks at Google. During the presentation Pabrai relays a story about a time he had dinner with a small group at the home of Charlie Munger. During the dinner Munger posed a question to the group: Why did the ‘best ideas … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai – “Stop Losses Make No Sense” – Here’s Why
Mohnish Pabrai recently did a great interview with BloombergQuint, the Indian financial news organisation. While Pabrai has said many times that he’s not a fan of stop-losses, in this interview he provides a great example of how stop-losses can seriously hurt your performance. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Pabrai: … Read More
Klarman And Pabrai – Just How Important Are Catalysts To Investing Success
One topic that gets a lot of discussion in the world of investing is the importance of catalysts. A catalyst in investing terms is an event that triggers a change to a stock price. Catalysts can include things like a latest earnings release, a positive or negative result in a … Read More
Superinvestors Agree That Business Schools Don’t Make You A Better Investor
While a lot of investors believe that a good finance course at one of the world’s most prestigious business schools is a sure-fire way to becoming a better investor, it seems that some of the greatest investors disagree. Here’s what Buffett, Munger, Greenblatt, Pabrai, and Lynch have to say about … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai – Focus On Individual Stocks And Never Ever Invest In IPO’s – Here’s Why
Here’s a great interview with Mohnish Pabrai on ET Now. With regards to IPO’s Pabrai says, “The simple rule to follow is do not buy what is being sold, especially what is being sold by promoters. Just completely side step the IPO market.” In relation to individual stock investment he … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai – The Secret To Finding Your Next 100-Bagger
100-Baggers are the holy grail of investing. These are stocks that return $100 for every $1 invested and they’re extremely rare. However, the secret to capturing your next 100-Bagger can be found in a presentation that Mohnish Pabrai did with the folks at Google earlier this year. The answer came when … Read More
Here’s How Successful Investors Dampen Down Their Investing ‘Cocaine Brain’ – Pabrai, Spier
As investors we all know the excitement we feel when we come across what we think is an undervalued opportunity that seems to have been overlooked by most other investors. The feeling of exhilaration that we get is called “cocaine brain.” Neuroscientists have found that the prospect of making money stimulates the … Read More
Great Investors Create Their Own Version Of Omaha – Buffett, Munger, Klarman, Pabrai
One of the biggest problems facing investors is the amount of ‘noise’ that we get from the financial media and commentators. Financial news sections, the internet, and podcasts are continually bombarding us with the latest ‘hot stock’ or miracle investing strategy. Meanwhile investors get caught up in the noise checking … Read More
How Can We Learn To Follow In The Footsteps of Buffett and Munger? – Mohnish Pabrai
One of our favorite investors here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Mohnish Pabrai. Pabrai is the Founder and Managing Partner of the Pabrai Investments Funds, the Founder and CEO of Dhandho Funds, and the author of The Dhandho Investor and Mosaic: Perspectives on Investing. One of the best Pabrai interviews … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai – If Your Investment Thesis Requires You To Fire Up Excel, It Should Be A Big Red Flag
I just finished re-reading one of my favorite investing books, The Dhando Investor, by Mohnish Pabrai. One of my favorite parts of the book covers Pabrai’s methodology when it comes to putting together an investment thesis. His thesis is in accordance with Buffett and Munger’s age old adage of keeping … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai Office Tour and Conversation with Guy Spier
Not all Superinvestors work out of multi-storey complexes as you can see from this Mohnish Pabrai office tour by Guy Spier in Irvine, California. And, as far as I know, not too many take a nap in the afternoon but Pabrai has a bedroom at his office where he takes … Read More
Mohnish Pabrai Says An Investment Opportunity Should Hit You Over The Head Immediately Otherwise Move On
Great video with Mohnish Pabrai speaking with the folks at Google. This whole presentation can be summed up at 27:05 when Pabrai says, “Spending time on [researching] companies is likely to make me bias”. In other words when you’re looking for investment opportunities they should hit you over the head … Read More