Tag Archives: Value Investing

Excerpts from Seth Klarman’s 2010 Letter to Limited Partners

Readers of this blog know that I believe Seth Klarman, portfolio manager at the hedge fund Baupost Group, is one of the greatest investors of our generation. We share so many of the same views as Klarman that I consider us the … Continue reading

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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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Charlie Munger Speaks at the U of Michigan (video)

When people like Munger leave this earth, we lose much wisdom… 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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Vitaliy Katsenelson’s Blog

I have just added VK’s Contrarian Edge to the blogroll. VK has strong opinions, but backed up with many facts. He has an interesting tid bit in today’s post: China consumes two-thirds of the world’s production of iron ore. Given the … Continue reading

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A Wise Fool.com Article

I found wisdom worthy enough to teach my children in this fool.com article: What Everyone Ought to Know, but Doesn’t By Buck Hartzell | More Articles January 7, 2011 | Comments (24) In honor of the brand new year, I’ve … Continue reading

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Aswath Damodaran on Herding Behavior

I have read Aswath’s blog a few times and I am adding it to our blogroll today. He is a professor of finance at NYU’s Stern School of Business and has spoken at CFA Institute conferences. His comments on last … 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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Stan Majcher (Hotchkis & Wiley Value Portfolio Manager) Interview at Morningstar

As Stan says, the only risk that we as portfolio managers can truly control is the price that we pay for our investments. In other words, we must make a purchase only when all of our research tells us that there is … Continue reading

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