Monthly Archives: November 2011

Seth Klarman Interviewed by Charlie Rose November 1, 2011

An Interview with Seth Klarman and Charlie Rose from Facing History and Ourselves on Vimeo Continue reading

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Recent Headlines from a Popular News Aggregator

Recent headlines from a popular news aggregation website: Germany told it must act to save Europe… Impassioned plea for continent to avoid ‘apocalypse’… Warned of ‘highly devastating outcomes’… Just days until collapse? It is hard to believe the US market … Continue reading

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More Evidence that the Value Premium is Unrelated to Risk

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1840551 Continue reading

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New Link in the Value Investing Resources Section: Hedge Fund Letters

I have added Hedge Fund Letters as a value investing resource even though some of the hedge fund managers there are not value investors. Most value investors who truly wish to be contrarian and invest only when there is a … Continue reading

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Congressional Day Traders: Laws for Thee, But Not For Me | Market Integrity Insights…

…from the Chief Executive Officer of the CFA Institute: Congressional Day Traders: Laws for Thee, But Not For Me | Market Integrity Insights Continue reading

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Expert Opinion: What is it Worth? Montana, Brady, and Tebow

I am absolutely fascinated with the Tim Tebow story. Not the one about the vilified, overtly Christian athlete. No, I am fascinated with the countless stories of athletes like Tebow that experts said could not be successful, and then end up having one success … Continue reading

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A Machine that Predicts the Future?

I have not received this edition yet, but I cannot wait to read the article. A machine that predicts the future? If enough people fall for that, value investors like me will make a mint.         In Brief Researchers … Continue reading

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Kyle Bass on Japan and Europe at a Darden School Conference

Michael Lewis opens his latest book, Boomerang, which can be found in the bookstore above, with a vignette about his meeting in 2008 with Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital. He left the meeting thinking that Bass was a bit of … Continue reading

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A CNBC Market Master’s Two Remarkable Statements

Larry Fink of BlackRock is CNBC’s newest member of their “Masters of the Markets” club. “That and a dime will get you a phone call” was an expression used during the pay phone era to demonstrate that the recognition was … Continue reading

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The European Debt Crisis is a Known Unknown, but this…

As I wrote before, the market’s dramatic rise in the face of the daunting problems that we know about seemed absurd, especially when unknown unknowns are always with us. China is one, but this may be the ultimate wild card: Israel … Continue reading

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