Yesterday we posted Part 1 in a three part series by Morningstar titled – Morningstar: Value Investing: A Deep Dive Into Performance. Today we look at Part 2 in which Morningstar analysts provide their opinions on why value investing has underperformed for most of the last two decades, based on what … Read More
Morningstar: Value Investing: A Deep Dive Into Performance
Here’s a great article at Morningstar that does a deep dive on the underperformance of value investing over the past twenty years. The article is the first in a three part series. The second part will include Morningstar’s fund analysts providing color on what they have picked up in their … Read More
Bloomberg: A Real Shift May Be Underway Towards Value Investing
Here’s an article from Bloomberg titled – For a Strategy Left for Dead, Value Stocks Sure Do Return a Lot, which discusses the possibility that a real shift may be underway towards value investing: Ask any Wall Street wag and he’ll tell you: the time-honored strategy known as value investing is … Read More
GMO: Are We Witnessing The Best Opportunity Set For Value Investors In The Past 20 Years
GMO recently released its Q3 2019 quarterly letter titled – Shades of 2000, which reports that value investors could be seeing the best opportunity set in the past 20 years. Here’s an excerpt from the letter: The years leading up to the 2000 stock market bubble were extraordinary and unprecedented. … Read More
Schroders: Has Value Investing Been Disrupted?
Here’s an article from Schroders which discusses the impact of technology on traditional value investing: Disruption is a major theme in stock markets today with companies such as Amazon and Uber challenging the traditional approach to their respective industries. Such companies are an example of so-called “growth” stocks, with investors … Read More
Latest Research: Will Value Investing Ever Rebound?
Here’s a great new research paper titled – Explaining the Demise of Value Investing. The paper discusses the two major reasons for the demise of value investing and speculates on the likelihood of a resurgence. Here’s an abstract: The business press claims that the long-standing and highly popular value investing strategy—investing in … Read More
Bloomberg: Why Value Investing Has Been Doing Badly
Here’s a great podcast from Bloomberg with hosts Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway discussing – why has value investing been doing so badly. One of the oldest, most basic strategies in investing is value investing, which, for lack of a better way to put it, means “buy stocks that are … Read More
Cliff Asness: Why It’s Hard to Say When Value Wins Again
Here’s an excerpt from the AFR in which Cliff Asness is discussing why it’s hard to say when value investing wins again: It’s the question every almost every fund manager wished they had the answer for. And not surprisingly, it’s one that Cliff Asness gets asked the most: When is … Read More
GMO: Just Why Has Value Underperformed Growth For The Past Decade?
Here’s a great new paper by the team at GMO which discusses the factors that have caused the underperformance of value investing in the past decade, stating: The performance of U.S. value over the last decade has led many to wonder whether the value premium has been completely eroded. We … Read More
Charlie Munger: The Two Markets That Are Most Inefficient
Here’s a great excerpt from Whitney Tilson’s notes on the 2007 Wesco Annual Meeting. During the meeting Charlie Munger provides some great insights on the growing popularity of value investing, efficient markets, and the two markets that are most inefficient: Is value investing becoming more widespread? I think our way … Read More
Walter Schloss: It’s An Irrational World, So You Can’t Always Do Things Logically
Here’s an excerpt from a 1989 article featuring Walter Schloss titled – Searching for Value. In the article Schloss provides some great insights into the difficulty of investing logically in an irrational world: A value-minded investor. Schloss views his business as rational—finding securities that are objectively undervalued compared to their … Read More
Why Has Value Investing Underperformed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7_QJyxr2W0?start=2331 During his recent interview with Tobias, Jake Taylor of Farnam Street provides some great insights into why he thinks value investing has had such a rough time lately, saying: Jake – I think it’s a confluence of factors. I don’t know honestly. If I had to assign how much … Read More
Forbes: Contrary To Popular Belief, Value Investing Is Not Dead
Here’s a great article at Forbes discussing the recent performance of value investing saying: “However, a hundred years worth of data says value investing works. One cycle doesn’t change that.” Here’s an excerpt from that article: Many people think value investing is dead. It’s not. Style leadership rotates across cycles. Also, adjusting … Read More
Christopher Davis: Value Investing Opportunities Exist When A Company Is In The Headlines For Unfavorable Reasons
Value investor Christopher Davis just released his 2018 Fall Review for the Clipper Fund. The Clipper Fund returned 6.1% in the first seven months of 2018, and over the last three years has slightly outperformed the S&P 500 Index with a cumulative return of 43% versus 42% for the index. … Read More
How Different Are Value Investors From Other Investors?
Heres a great article by George Athanassakos at The Globe and Mail which discusses the personality traits of successful value investors and how value investors are different to other types of investors. Here’s an excerpt from that article: While the technical aspects of value investing – screening for and valuing … Read More
OSAM: Here’s Why Value Factors Will Continue To Provide An Edge For Long Term Value Investors
One of the firms that we like to follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is O’Shaughnessy Asset Management (OSAM), which is run by Jim and Patrick O’Shaughnessy and their team. OSAM recently released it Q218 Shareholder letter which provides some great insights on the future of value investing and why OSAM … Read More
Bill Nygren’s Oakmark Funds Says Inactivity In Investing Remains The Optimal Strategy
One of the investor’s we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Bill Nygren. Nygren has been a manager of the Oakmark Select Fund since 1996, Oakmark Fund since 2000 and the Oakmark Global Select Fund since 2006. He is also the Chief Investment Officer for U.S. Equities at … Read More
Mario Gabelli: We’ll Use The Same Guiding Principles To Avoid Over-Paying For A Company’s Intrinsic Value And Lose Less During Market Manias
One of the investors we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Mario Gabelli, Founder, Chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, Inc. Gabelli recently did a Q&A session with some folks at Reddit which provided some great value investing insights. Here’s an except from the thread on Reddit: Hello Reddit! … Read More
Sequoia Fund: A Great Value Investing Mindset Creates A Substainable Advantage
One of the value investing firms that we follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb (RCG), the investment adviser best known for managing the Sequoia Fund. RCG recently released its Q2 2018 Investor Letter. For the second quarter of 2018, Sequoia Fund generated a total return … Read More
Mason Hawkins: Real Value Investing Has A Humility Not Present In Today’s More Popular Method Of Heavily Weighing The Qualitative Factors Of The Business And Minimizing The Importance Of Valuation
One of the value investors we like to follow closely here at The Acquirer’s Multiple is Mason Hawkins, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Longleaf Partners (Longleaf). Last week Longleaf released its Q218 Shareholder Letter which contains a number of warnings for today’s investors saying: “Managers who say convincingly today that … Read More