Last year Bruce Greenwald did a great interview with Leslie Norton at Barron’s in which he discussed his ‘spin’ on value investing and how it can significantly improve your results. Here is an excerpt from that interview: Norton: Isn’t value investing about buying cheap stocks? Greenwald: There’s a Graham and … Read More
Michael Mauboussin: What Is Most Misunderstood About Value Investing Today
Here’s a great interview at Forbes in which Kevin Harris from SumZero chats with Michael Mauboussin about value investing, active management, and the state of the market. Part of the interview includes Mauboussin’s thoughts on what is most misunderstood about the discipline of value investing today? Here’s an excerpt from … Read More
Charlie Munger: How To Value A Business Or Company
One of the best resources for investors are the Daily Journal Annual meetings chaired by Charles Munger. These meetings are full of valuable investing insights for investors. One example is the 2016 Annual Meeting in which Munger was asked, “What do you use to value a business or a company? … Read More
Market Volatility Is A Value Investor’s Best Friend
Here’s a great article by Gary Smith at MarketWatch. Smith, the author of “Money Machine: The Surprisingly Simple Power of Value Investing” illustrates how market volatility provides great opportunities for value investors saying: “In fact, stock market volatility is a value investor’s best friend. Stock prices fluctuate far more than … Read More
Warren Buffett: How To Use Phil Fisher’s Scuttlebutt Method Today
Last year Warren Buffett did a great interview with Becky Quick at CNBC in which he discussed how he uses Phil Fisher’s ‘Scuttlebutt Method’ for finding investments. Phil Fisher wrote a investing classic called, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits. Scuttlebutt means rumors or gossip about a particular product or company from … Read More
David Einhorn – “Don’t Sit Around Trying To Figure Out The Precise Value Of Stocks”
David Einhorn recently did a great presentation with the team at Oxford Union where he shared a number of aspects of his investing strategy. Einhorn discusses what to do when a position is not working out, how to value stocks, the downside of short-termism, and dealing with the differences between shareholders … Read More
Warren Buffett – “EMT Has Been An Extraordinary Service To Us And Other Followers Of Graham”
Here’s a great passage from Warren Buffet’s 1988 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter in which he discusses issues surrounding the Efficient Marker Theory (EMT) and how it has been a godsend to Grahamites. In terms of the ‘contest’ between EMT believers and the value investing community Buffett says: “In any sort … Read More
Burton Malkiel – How to Invest in an Overpriced World
Here’s a great article at the WSJ by Burton Malkiel, author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Chief Investment Officer of Wealthfront. Malkiel provides two strategies that might be worth considering in an overpriced world saying: “What, then, can an investor do to control risk? The two strategies that … 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
Warren Buffett – “It’s Not What You Look At That Matters; It’s What You See.”
Warren Buffett provides a great lesson for all investors in the book – The Warren Buffet Way, by Robert Hagstrom. The lesson is that investors can spend weeks and years reading and analyzing information on prospective companies, but according to Buffett, “It’s not what you look at that matters; it’s … Read More
Howard Marks – Regardless Of The Current Market Conditions, Invest On The Basis Of Value And Its Relationship To Price
We’ve just been reading through Howard Marks’ latest memo – Latest Thinking. He makes a number of great points on current market conditions, possible future catalysts, and defensive versus aggressive investing. But the one take-away that stuck out for us is that regardless of current market conditions one should always … Read More
Charlie Munger – How To Dramatically Improve Your Financial Results
Here’s a great passage from the book – Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger, in which Munger illustrates how your financial results can be dramatically improved by being prepared, on a few occasions in a lifetime, to act promptly in scale, in doing some simple and logical … Read More
How To Invest Like… Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett’s Right-Hand Man
Here’s a great article at The Telegraph discussing one of our favorite value investors here at The Acquirer’s Multiple, Charlie Munger. The article provides some great insights into Munger’s relationship with Buffett, his investing strategy, and his ten point investing checklist. Here’s an excerpt from that article: The world’s most famous … Read More
Joel Greenblatt – The 3 Golden Rules Of Successful Value Investing
Here’s a great article published at Forbes recently regarding one of our favorite value investors, Joel Greenblatt. The article is written by Jack Schwager, author of the Market Wizards series, in which he recounts his interview with Joel Greenblatt for one of his books. Schwager recalls some of the insightful parts of the … Read More
Seth Klarman – Value Opportunities Still Exist In Firms Being Attacked By The Likes Of Amazon
Good news for value investors as the WSJ reports that Seth Klarman at Baupost is still finding value opportunities in firms being attacked by the likes of Amazon, saying: “Increasing technological disruption is already pushing some securities well below our assessment of underlying value,” writes Mr. Klarman, “as legitimate concerns … Read More
David Einhorn – When Investing Feels Like You’re Running Into A Headwind, Don’t Capitulate, Stick To Your Strategy
One of our favorite investors here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is David Einhorn. Einhorn is the founder of Greenlight Capital, which according to WhaleWisdom manages a stock portfolio valued at approximately $6.67 Billion. We’ve just finished reading through Greenlight’s latest Q4 2017 shareholder letter which shows that the fund has returned … 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
Howard Marks – Investors Are Like Those Drivers Changing Lanes Every Minute, Cutting Off Half The Cars On The Road
One of the best free resources for all investors are Howard Marks’ memos. Marks is the Co-Chairman of Oaktree Capital, which currently manages a portfolio valued at approximately $6.7 Billion. Since 1990 Marks has written 100+ memos which are full of valuable investing insights. One of our personal favorites here … Read More
Warren Buffett: Why Stocks Beat Gold, Bonds… and Bitcoin
It’s quite incredible to watch the latest euphoria surrounding cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin. Whether or not we’re witnessing a bubble, only time will tell. But at the time of writing there are 1395 cyrptocurrencies with a combined market cap of approximately $730 Billion. Of which Bitcoin has a market cap of … Read More
Shelby Cullom Davis & The Wisdom of Great Investors
One of the best papers ever written on investing is The Wisdom of Great Investors, provided by Davis Advisors. Davis Advisors was founded by legendary investor Shelby Cullom Davis, a leading financial advisor to governors and presidents, who parlayed an initial investment of $100,000 in the late 1940s into more than … Read More