Tag Archives: Value Investing

Jason Zweig Interviews Jean-Marie Eveillard

Jason is correct that many investors who place their capital with value investing firms will not stay with the firm long enough through multiple cycles in order to capture the value premium. Paradoxically, that is part of the reason that … 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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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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GreatInvestors.TV – Value Investing Video of the Day – Simon Caufield

I met Simon Caufield at the 2011 CFA Institute (CFAI) Annual Conference in Edinburgh. The CFAI was experimenting with a social media app for the conference and asked Annual Conference Advisory Board members to “seed” discussions on the app. My … 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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An Unusually Large Herd of Grey Swans

Events that can have a significant impact on the economy and capital markets have become known as swans of various shades thanks largely to Nassim Taleb’s book, The Black Swan, in which Taleb reminded us of Karl Popper’s criticism of … Continue reading

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Ed Anderson, Another Superinvestor, Passed Away this Month

The Graham and Doddsville Blog (listed on the right) alerted me to an oversight on my part. Ed Anderson, a co-founder of Tweedy Browne, Graham disciple, and one of the Superinvestors mentioned in Warren Buffett’s Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville … Continue reading

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RIP, Walter Schloss, a “Superinvestor” Identified in the Tab Above

Bloomberg reports that Walter Schloss died yesterday at the age of 95. He is one of the Superinvestors identified by Buffett in his famous speech The Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville (see the tab above). I had the honor of … 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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Late 2011 Interview with Bill Ackman (Bloomberg Video)

A video posted at Bloomberg of an interview with Bill Ackman at a conference in 2011 (H/T: Street of Walls)… Continue reading

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