…stock, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars of its debt. Fairholme started investing in AIG in the second half of 2009, Bloomberg reports, when Berkowitz says its cash…
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Dreman on Fighting Inflation
…you run the risk that inflation will come back and ruin you. I consider inflation risk to be one of the most underappreciated hazards of investing today.” Dreman says that…
Greenblatt: Know Your Risk Tolerance
In his latest column on his Magic Formula Investing web site, Joel Greenblatt says it’s critical for investors to know what level of short-term losses they’ll be able to take…
Whitman on the Importance of the Balance Sheet
Value investing legend Marty Whitman was one of those to speak at the recent Columbia Investment Management Conference, and The Manual of Ideas blog offered a good summary of Whitman’s…
ECRI Director: No Recession this Year
…recession this year. Achuthan adds, however, that he thinks we’ve entered a longer period in which we will see more frequent recessions — which means buy-and-hold investing is “dead”. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzhZw00v2uo]…