Tag Archives: Conventional Professional Investors

The Market Return Histogram through 2014

The S&P 500 Index delivered a 13.69% return in 2014 as the market continued to reach new highs after reaching new highs in 2013. This year, for the first time, I have highlighted the years corresponding with the inflation and bursting … Continue reading

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B. Malkiel Cannot Believe His Own Eyes

“Over the past 100 years the returns from smaller companies have exceeded those of larger companies. It is also true that stocks with low valuations (i.e. lower prices relative to earnings and book values) have generated better returns than those … Continue reading

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What is the Effect of a Label? Smart Beta Makes Bill Sharpe “Sick”

Bill Sharpe gave us the Sharpe Ratio to help determine whether an active investment manager is “beating” the market after adjusting for the risk that the manager assumed. Sharpe is from the Efficient Market school of academia, which believes that markets are … Continue reading

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Howard Marks: The Top-Ten Qualities that Make Warren Buffett Different from Most Investors

The following are bullet points reproduced (and numbered by order of appearance) from Howard Marks’s Forward to the third edition of The Warren Buffett Way, by Robert G. Hagstrom. Marks writes a couple of paragraphs to elaborate on each bullet point, … Continue reading

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Mohnish Pabrai Has Not Made an Investment in a New Idea in Over 18 Months

Forbes once identified Mohnish as one of the investment managers who could assume the value-investing guru mantle from Buffett. In his 2013 Annual Letter, Pabrai wrote that he has not found a new idea in which to invest in over eighteen … Continue reading

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Jason Zweig on Irving Kahn, 107 Year OId Value Investor

The former Ben Graham employee is still kicking, but has half of his money in cash. “He reads voraciously every day…especially about science.” Man after my heart. “Individual investors who avoid ‘doing things you know too little about’ still stand … Continue reading

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RIP, Barton Biggs

Barton Biggs passed away on Saturday after a short illness. Every aspiring hedge fund manager should read his book Hedgehogging, which was published in 2006. You can find it in the book store above. Having just skimmed my marked up copy … 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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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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