Tag Archives: Behavioral Finance

Patience, but the Willingness to Act Decisively when Opportunities Arise…

..these are the keys to investment success, not throwing capital at 500 companies merely because those companies are in somebody’s index… Continue reading

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Top Five Articles from June | Enterprising Investor

Top Five Articles from June | Enterprising Investor. Good Stuff… Continue reading

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Avoiding the Siren Song of Emotions | Enterprising Investor Blog

An excellent short piece on behavioral investing. I would pay particular attention to the boombustology information regarding China and they did not even mention Chinese ghost cities. Finally, I love that they used a Waterhouse painting (as above) to emphasize these … Continue reading

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Typical Story of an Unknown Value Investor with Little AUM

The NYSSA linked to a story in Smart Money that I had to share. It is a story of a fund manager who seeks to buy companies that are trading at a discount to their intrinsic value and that have excellent long-term prospects; in other … Continue reading

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My Risk Literacy Test Results (w/ Link)

At the prompting of the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Zweig through a LinkedIn update, I decided to take a risk literacy test that he discovered. I am proud of my results because I take pride in my risk management skills … Continue reading

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Part I of my Notes from The CFA Institute’s Conference: “Security Analysis and the Search for Value”

The CFA Institute conducted a conference on value investing in New York on November 29 and 30. The program was excellent. I am posting some of my notes and some of my favorite quotes from the presentations to give you … Continue reading

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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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