While they have been hit hard over the past year, many of the world’s top investors aren’t shying away from the stock and bond markets, writes The Wall Street Journal’s Eleanor Laise. In fact, many have been snatching up bargain stocks and bonds for their own personal portfolios while most investors have been fleeing the [...]
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Archive | January, 2009
There’s Magic in Greenblatt’s “Magic Formula”
January 29, 2009
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I’ve added a new investment model to my arsenal. It’s based on the “Magic Formula” strategy that Joel Greenblatt outlined in The Little Book that Beats The Market. Some of what you’ll find below is a recap of a post I did last week, but in this post I’ve also included the ten stocks that [...]
Read moreWhat Does It Mean to be a Value Investor?
January 28, 2009
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In a piece written for Forbes.com’s “Gurus’ Guide to 2009“, John Heins and Whitney Tilson do a great job in examining just what makes an investor a value investor. While value investors come in all shapes and sizes — large-cap, small-cap, activist, non-activist, U.S.-focused, foreign-focused — Heins and Tilson list 12 similarities they share. A [...]
Read moreJ. Zweig on Forecasting & Black Swans
January 28, 2009
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Jason Zweig unveils some great research in his latest piece for The Wall Street Journal (“Why Market Forecasts Keep Missing The Mark”). With all sorts of pundits making predictions for where the market will head in 2009, Zweig says you should be skeptical of their forecasts — and your own — a notion that I [...]
Read more‘Good to Great’ Author Collins: “Those Who Panic, Die On The Mountain”
January 27, 2009
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Jim Collins, author of the top selling business books “Built to Last” and “Good to Great”, speaks with Fortune magazine about what it takes for companies to emerge from difficult periods in history. “A couple of things really jump out,” he says. “No. 1, in times of great duress, tumult, and uncertainty, you have to [...]
Read moreReese on New Guru Model, Economy
January 27, 2009
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In his latest Hot List newsletter, Validea CEO John Reese unveils a new guru-based stock selection model, and tells readers that continuing economic woes don’t have to mean continued trouble for the stock market. Reese’s new Guru Strategy is based on the writings of hedge fund master Joel Greenblatt. Greenblatt created quite a stir in [...]
Read moreGrantham on Cycles, Bargains, and the “Creative Tension” Facing Stock Investors
January 26, 2009
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In an excellent interview with Steve Forbes, Jeremy Grantham — the bear who called both the 2000 market crash and the recent plunge — discusses how he’s avoided the bursting bubbles, talks about the areas of the market that intrigue him now, and reasserts his assertion that stocks are cheap, but likely to get cheaper
Read moreYale’s Swensen: U.S. Should Have Learned Lesson in ’87, ’98
January 26, 2009
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Yale endowment manager David Swensen, who has been one of the most successful institutional investors in the world for the past two decades, tells Charlie Rose that the underlying problems involved in the current financial crisis are similar to those from the 1987 and 1998 crises – and that the country now needs to learn [...]
Read moreData Shows Bottom “In Sight”
January 22, 2009
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Using the research of Jeremy Siegel, Peter Brimelow and Edwin Rubenstein write on MarketWatch that stocks “can’t go all that much lower before getting to unsustainable depths”. The duo — who back in February 2007 wrote that stocks couldn’t get much higher before reaching unsustainable heights — periodically study how short-term market data compares to [...]
Read moreLittle-Known Guru’s Strategy Nets Big Gains Through Downturn
January 20, 2009
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The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) recently published its 2008 stock screening review ($$). For those that may not know, AAII has been tracking the performance of its screens since 1998. Through December 5th, the median performance for all of the AAII strategies was -41.7%. But, there was one strategy that was positive. And [...]
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