After struggling in 2011, Morningstar Fund Manager of the Decade Bruce Berkowitz is rebounding strong in 2012, with his Fairholme fund in the top 1% of funds in its category year-to-date, according to Morningstar.com. And at a recent Columbia Investment Management Association conference, Berkowitz laid out his checklist for analyzing a company and its stock, [...]
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Berkowitz Undeterred
February 3, 2012
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Bruce Berkowitz, who was one of Morningstar’s Fund Managers of the Decade in the 2000s but saw his flagship portfolio hit very hard in 2011, is sticking to his guns. “Improving book value levels and ratios show companies recovering from tough times, prepared for uncertainty, and capable of profits without excess leverage,” Berkowitz writes in [...]
Read moreBerkowitz: For Banks, Focus on Today’s Data — Not Unfounded Future Fears
September 21, 2011
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Bruce Berkowitz, who in 2010 was named one of Morningstar’s Fund Managers of the Decade but has been hit hard in the past year, says he continues to be high on unloved financial stocks that have been dragging his portfolio down. Berkowitz tells WealthTrack’s Consuelo Mack that all of the negativity about financials has driven [...]
Read moreBerkowitz Still Thinks Big Financials Will Get Their Due
August 3, 2011
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Bruce Berkowitz, one of Morningstar’s Fund Managers of the Decade for the 2000s, is sticking by his conviction that AIG and other financial stocks are undervalued and will make big gains. “Our inclination remains to run from the popular and embrace the hated where prices tend to reflect such mistrust,” Berkowitz wrote in a report [...]
Read moreBerkowitz on Ignoring the Crowd
June 16, 2011
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In a wide-ranging three-part interview with Morningstar’s Don Phillips, top value investor Bruce Berkowitz discusses several aspects of his investment approach, including the willingness to go against the crowd and the decision to run a focused portfolio smaller than those of many other mutual funds. “At the end of the day, investing is about one [...]
Read moreBerkowitz Still Confident in Financials
June 10, 2011
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Bruce Berkowitz remains high on financial stocks, and says his conviction about his financial holdings has only grown stronger. “I’ve been able to see their earnings for the past few quarters, the trends are getting better, the balance sheets are building, tangible book value is growing,” Berkowitz tells Bloomberg from the Morningstar Investment Conference. “The [...]
Read moreTop Managers Shun Bank Stocks
May 5, 2011
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While it’s now more than two-and-a-half years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the worst of the financial crisis, several top investors are still avoiding bank stocks. “We find it hard to believe the banks have cured all their bad asset problems, and they aren’t transparent enough for us to understand the risks,” Clyde [...]
Read moreBerkowitz Talks Financials, Europe, and His Mistakes
February 22, 2011
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In a lengthy joint interview with Advisor Perspectives and GuruFocus.com, Morningstar Fund Manager of the Decade Bruce Berkowitz offers his take on the market and several of his main holdings. Berkowitz, who went heavy into financial stocks after the financial crisis, says he remains confident in his financial holdings. “Loans created and underwritten since 2009, [...]
Read moreBerkowitz on Why He Still Likes Financials
August 30, 2010
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Morningstar domestic stock fund manager of the year Bruce Berkowitz is standing by his big bet on beaten-down financials, and recently explained why on Consuelo Mack’s WealthTrack. Berkowitz says that, having been incredibly scrutinized in recent years, financials now have strong balance sheets and excellent earnings power — and are trading at extremely cheap valuations. [...]
Read moreBerkowitz, Renaissance Targeted BP
August 16, 2010
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Top fund manager Bruce Berkowitz has been buying up beaten-down financials for several months now. In the second quarter, he also keyed on a beaten-up energy company — much-maligned BP. While the oil giant has taken a big hit both financially and reputation-wise following its Gulf of Mexico well explosion, Berkowitz apparently sees value in [...]
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