Schroders: Has Value Investing Been Disrupted?

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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?

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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

Walter Schloss: It’s An Irrational World, So You Can’t Always Do Things Logically

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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?

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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

OSAM: Here’s Why Value Factors Will Continue To Provide An Edge For Long Term Value Investors

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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

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

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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

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

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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