The man who made “safe and cheap” a value investing mantra passed away earlier this month, according to a recent Bloomberg article. Whitman created the Third Avenue Value Fund in…
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Most Read Posts on Validea's Guru Investor
Below are links to our most popular posts for this week on Validea’s Guru Investor blog. [1] A Different Definition of Risk [2] Joel Greenblatt Combines Active and Passive Investing…
Joel Greenblatt Combines Active and Passive Investing
In a recent episode of WealthTrack, Consuelo Mack interviewed Gotham Asset Management’s Joel Greenblatt, who shared his thoughts on active and passive investing and how he has combined the two…
"Black Swan" Investor Says Market Increasingly Fragile
…far this year, are up 0.54 percent (data from Eurekahedge Pte Ltd.). According to Haworth, “risky securities and investing strategies that have flourished during the decade of easy-money policies…could accelerate…
A Different Definition of Risk
…to suboptimal investing decisions. When you look at risk as the chance you won’t achieve your investing goals, there are 3 main things that can derail you. Your goals are…
Mario Gabelli Isn't Worried About the Passive Trend
…passive investing that has robbed active-management firms like his of assets,” but believes a passive approach makes sense for long-term investors that “don’t have much knowledge.” Gabelli refers to himself…
Yale Says its Endowment "Crushes" Indexes
…Institutional Investor. In the report, Yale rebuts Warren Buffett’s suggestion–stated in his 2016 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, that endowments and other institutional investors would be better off investing in…
Hedge Fund Stars Losing Shine, But the Industry is Fine
…was once dominated by “star” managers (who were paid handsomely)—it cites Peter Lynch and Bill Miller as examples—but adds that because investing styles go through periods where they simply don’t…
Want Consistent Market Outperformance? You May Want to Think Again
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — We run over 40 quantitative models at Validea. They run the gamut of investing styles. Any time we can find a model from a…
Housel on the Strength of Compounding on a Small Base
…to the simplest fact: Buffett’s fortune isn’t due to just being a good investor but being a good investor since he was literally a child” (Buffett began investing as a…