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The Third Quarter Letter from David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital

For your reading pleasure–the third quarter letter from David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital. David is an excellent value-focused, long-short hedge fund manager and his assets have grown quickly due to his stock selection success. That growth has also led David to … Continue reading

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An Interview with Jeremy Grantham

Jeremy Grantham of GMO is an exceptional big thinker on markets. I think bottom-up investing makes the most sense, but Grantham always makes us think when he speaks about macro events. I had the good fortune of sitting in the … Continue reading

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Free Markets: The Cure for Social Ills

Without getting too political, I suspect that too few understand that free markets cure more ills than even the best progressive policies initiated or funded by government. For your reading pleasure:  The Man Who Saved the Whales By WARREN MEYER Nov. … Continue reading

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Is MAKO Worth Relatively More than Its Competitors?

MAKO Surgical Corporation (NASD: MAKO) is a maker of robotic surgical equipment and minimally invasive orthopedic implants for knee procedures. It was incorporated in 2004, had its initial public offering in 2008, and currently has a $369 million market capitalization. … Continue reading

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Why Investors Herd: Jason Zweig’s Latest The Intelligent Investor Column in the WSJ

I do not always agree with Jason Zweig’s recommendations, but we definitely share a similar investing philosophy, and I do agree with him often. The usual reason that I disagree with Jason is that he is more resigned than I … Continue reading

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Don’t be Snookered by Investment Credential Alphabet Soup

Please do not fall for the kind of manipulation examined in the attached Wall Street Journal article. There are only a handful of investment credentials that add value and even fewer that relate directly to the knowledge and experience required in … Continue reading

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Part 1 of Excerpts of an Interview with Seth Klarman

The September/October 2010 edition of the Financial Analysts Journal (FAJ) includes a transcript of an interview with Seth Klarman, President and Portfolio Manager of The Baupost Group. The moderator was the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig and the title of … Continue reading

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St. Joe Company: Shorting News You Can Use

Greenlight Capital’s David Einhorn, an outstanding long-short value investor, presented at the Value Investing Congress today and detailed why St. Joe may be going to zero. Greenlight is one of a handful of successful investment management firms that have the following … Continue reading

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Sterne Agee Initiates RBCN with a Sell; Confirms MOS’s Analysis

Sterne Agee initiated coverage of Rubicon Technology (NASD: RBCN) with a Sell rating today and agreed with my thesis. If you recall, I inverted in my analysis to arrive at the growth rate necessary to bring RBCN’s price-to-fundamentals in line with larger, … Continue reading

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Long-Short Portfolio Construction versus Long Only

Mars Hill Partners (MHP) is an investment adviser specializing in long-short portfolio construction. MHP recently launched an ETF based on its global relative value strategies, which are top-down, macro strategies and much different from the bottom-up, value strategies used the Portfolio Manager. In … Continue reading

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