Tag Archives: Conventional Professional Investors

Gates and Buffett at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business 4Q 2009 (Video)

This is old, but it is a timeless clip. I watched this meeting live and thought it well done, but it is amazing how much wisdom you can find in a few minute clip from a 90-minute event. Buffett makes … Continue reading

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Howard Marks on Risk (in Jason Zweig’s 2/12 Intelligent Investor Column) and Montier on the Risk and Return Characteristics of Value vs. Growth Companies

Howard Marks had been writing outstanding letters to his investors for years. I have read almost every one of his letters since and found that they are filled with fantastic investing common sense. Howard Marks has also been delivering great … Continue reading

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The Brandes Institute’s Latest Research; BI Added to the Value Investing Resources List

The Brandes Institute is a subsidiary of value-investing firm Brandes Investment Partners and it publishes investment research in academic and professional journals as well as on its website. I have included a link to their research in the Value Investing Resources … Continue reading

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Controversy in the World of Index Investors

Is Your Index Fund Broken? Smart Money By the Numbers by Jack Hough Published January 31, 2011 The Journal of Indexes gives academic treatment to bland investments, and so might not seem a likely source of hot controversy. The latest … Continue reading

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Does Your Mutual Fund Manager (or Broker) Have Skin in the Game?

Good article in today’s Wall Street Journal. I could not agree with it any more (subscription Required to read the whole thing): FUND TRACK JANUARY 18, 2011 Look for Money Managers With Skin in the Game By CHUCK JAFFE There … Continue reading

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High-Priced Businesses: Jason Zweig on Facebook and the PM’s List of High-Priced Companies

Jason Zweig’s column in today’s Wall Street Journal is titled “Why the Fuss over Facebook Doesn’t Make It a Homerun” and it provides fodder for two posts on this blog today. This first post shows that market buzz, such as … Continue reading

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Historical Market Returns by Year (1825 – 2010)

I first saw the Friess Associates and Yale University market return histogram a few years ago and found it fascinating. Barring a large collapse on the last trading day of the year tomorrow, the returns on the S&P 500 (the … Continue reading

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David Einhorn on the Charlie Rose Show (Video)

David Einhorn appeared on the Charlie Rose Show on December 6, 2010. I think Einhorn is a brilliant securities analyst. He has done a remarkable job providing high risk-adjusted returns for over a decade for the limited partners in his … 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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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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