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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

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

In his book Margin Of Safety, Seth Klarman discusses why the avoidance of loss is the surest way to ensure a profitable outcome. Here’s an excerpt from the book: While no one wishes to incur losses, you couldn’t prove it from an examination of the behavior of most investors and … Read More

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

In his latest 2021 Year-End Letter, Seth Klarman explained why the wiring we all have as humans can trip us up. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: A sound investment process benefits from the scar tissue of past mistakes, a front-of-mind awareness of the very many things that can go … Read More

In his latest 2021 Year End Letter, Seth Klarman discusses why investors must maintain their bearings when others are not. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: Of course, consistent market gains are intoxicating; if a bull market could have a brain scan, we’d see all quadrants brightly lit up. With … Read More

This article on Markets Insider has 11 of the best quotes from Seth Klarman’s latest Annual Letter. Here are three of our favourites which illustrate the sentiment of current investor psychology: 1. “We see today’s market as characterized by stretched valuations, deep complacency, and a host of looming risks.” 2. … Read More

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

In his book – Margin of Safety, Seth Klarman discusses why liquidity can be illusory. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Liquidity can be illusory. As Louis Lowenstein has stated, “In the stock market, there is liquidity for the individual but not for the whole community. The distributable profits of … Read More

In his book – Margin of Safety, Seth Klarman discusses how the madness of crowds creates opportunities for value investors. Here’s an excerpt from the book: A second important reason to examine the behavior of other investors and speculators is that their actions often inadvertently result in the creation of … Read More

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

In his book, Margin Of Safety, Seth Klarman discusses the greatest challenge for value investors. Here’s an excerpt from the book: Value investing is the discipline of buying securities at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realized. The element … Read More

In his book Margin of Safety, Seth Klarman discusses managing the portfolio liquidity cycle. Here’s an excerpt from that book: When your portfolio is completely in cash, there is no risk of loss. There is also, however, no possibility of earning a high return. The tension between earning a high … Read More

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

In this presentation to Bruce Greenwald’s class, Value Investing With Legends, in March 2018 Seth Klarman discussed the competitive edges that his firm had developed in order to be successful investors. Here’s an excerpt from that presentation: One of the things that has not changed, that gives me great optimism … Read More

In his latest letter to investors, Seth Klarman discussed the possible longer-term ramifications of the COVID-19 Pandemic and included a list of eight changes to the future as we know it saying: For most of the last century, a reasonable approach to assessing a company’s future prospects was to expect … Read More