How many stocks should an investor own in order to diversify away stock-specific risk? Some interesting data shows that it may be fewer than you think. The data comes from hedge fund guru Joel Greenblatt’s book, You Can Be A Stock Market Genius, and was highlighted by top value investor Whitney Tilson a few years back [...]
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Tilson On Financials, And The Importance Of Discipline
December 2, 2011
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Whitney Tilson says he doesn’t think the U.S. is headed for financial Armageddon, which means numerous bargains — including several in the financial sector — are available right now. “Yes and no,” Tilson says when asked by Forbes’ Steve Forbes if there are more bargains in the market than there were in 2008. “In terms [...]
Read moreTilson: Plenty of Values Right Now
October 26, 2011
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Whitney Tilson says the U.S. economy is in better shape than most people think, and he is finding big value in a number of prominent companies’ shares. “The U.S. has already gone through and emerged from the subprime debt crisis,” Tilson tells MarketWatch. “There’s still an overhang and it has to work its way through,” [...]
Read moreTilson: Economy Hanging In; Market Cheap as It’s Been Since ’09 Bottom
October 7, 2011
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Whitney Tilson, who has an exceptional long-term track record but has struggled of late, says several economic indicators — including Warren Buffett — are leading him to believe that the U.S. economy will avoid major crises in the next few years. And, he says stocks are as attractive as they’ve been since the 2009 bottom. [...]
Read moreTilson & Heins on Staying Disciplined
August 26, 2011
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Warren Buffett has said that investing is simple, but it’s not easy, and in their latest Kiplinger’s column, value investors Whitney Tilson and John Heins explore that subject. “In The Little Book That Beats the Market, published in 2005, star money manager Joel Greenblatt describes a ‘magic formula’ for success that ranks stocks based on [...]
Read moreTilson & Heins on “Lottery” Picks
July 21, 2011
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While they are value investors, Whitney Tilson and John Heins say that it’s okay to swing for the fences on riskier stocks. “Overpaying for stocks is always a bad idea,” the duo writes in their latest Forbes column. “But there are times when the market offers what we consider mispriced options on success. We will [...]
Read moreTilson Sees Economy “Muddling Along”; Playing Defense with Portfolio
May 12, 2011
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Top value investor Whitney Tilson says that we’re in unusually uncertain times, and that he’s playing defense with his portfolio. “We believe that we are in a period of ‘unusual uncertainty’”, Tilson says in a lengthy presentation that also includes a good deal of information about behavioral finance and the biases that investors are prone [...]
Read moreTilson: Apple’s Good, But Microsoft Is Better
April 21, 2011
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While many investors are piling into areas of the market where economic growth has been concentrated and valuations are high, value investor Whitney Tilson says he’s keying on unloved blue chips. “There are a lot of big-cap blue-chip companies that are trading at moderate prices,” Tilson tells Reuters. “At a time when everyone is getting [...]
Read moreTilson & Tongue Rethink “Terrible” Business of Shorting
February 4, 2011
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In their January letter to clients, top value investors Whitney Tilson and Glenn Tongue of T2 Partners say their big recent losses on short positions have led them to rethink their overall shorting approach. “Over time we’ve been quite successful shorting fads, frauds, promotions, declining businesses, and bad balance sheets,” say Tilson and Tongue, whose [...]
Read moreTilson: Housing Crisis Near “Seventh Inning”
January 14, 2011
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Whitney Tilson, one of the few to warn of the housing bubble before it burst, says we are now around the “seventh inning” of the housing crisis. Tilson tells CNBC that he doesn’t think things will get a lot better anytime soon, but he also thinks it won’t get a lot worse, as the government [...]
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