Tag Archives: Risk

“…the prime directive will be to ‘lose as little money as possible’.” Jason Zweig Interviews Dean LeBaron

The WSJ published another excellent The Intelligent Investor column today written by Jason Zweig. In it, Jason interviews Dean LeBaron, retired founder of Batterymarch Financial Management. “For decades, the name of the game for investors has been to make as … Continue reading

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A Book Review

Heh, I was looking at the NYSSA website and stumbled on a book review written in 2011 of Joel Greenblatt’s The Big Secret for the Small Investor and forgot that I wrote the review. Enjoy: http://post.nyssa.org/nyssa-news/2011/05/book-review-the-big-secret-for-the-small-investor.html Continue reading

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Joel Greenblatt on Value Investing (Morningstar)

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Tie Yourself to the Mast

Jason Zweig writes an excellent column on tying oneself to the mast (as in the above painting) for financial decision making when the alternative is to rely on willpower alone. Many people believe they can maneuver in choppy markets; fully … Continue reading

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The Stock Market: Looking in from the Outside

We are nearly halfway through 2013 and the S&P 500 Total Return Index is on pace to deliver a return of over 47% for the year. In the last 188 years of stock market activity, the market delivered an annual return of … Continue reading

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How Safe are the Assets that You Trusted to Your Custodian? Jason Zweig

I am a risk manager and credit analyst by training (actually, I think I was born that way), so when I created my hedge fund over three years ago, one of the first questions I asked the partner of (large, … Continue reading

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Howard Marks in Barrons. Is a Retraction/Correction Coming?

I do not think that Barron’s front page headline in this week’s magazine accurately reflects Howard Marks’ thinking. Marks’ latest full-length memo (he is famous for his memos) seems to be a LOT more cautious and a LOT less sanguine about markets, especially debt markets, than the … Continue reading

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RIP, Robert A. Haugen

Robert A. Haugen passed away Sunday, January 6, 2013 and I did not discover that until now. Haugen is perhaps best known for his book The New Finance in which he summarized important academic studies that proved that markets were … Continue reading

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Thinking in a Foreign Language Helps Reduce Loss Aversion

According to behavioral finance theory, Loss Aversion causes investors to sell winning investments quickly in order to “lock in” gains and to hold on to losing investments in order to get even, regardless of the underlying fundamentals, changes in circumstances, or overall … Continue reading

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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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