Many investors believe that all value investing strategies are similar. When it comes to getting exposure to value, they think the many value funds that are out there are mostly…
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The Voting Machine vs. the Weighing Machine
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.Benjamin Graham (Sort Of) I am…
Zweig on Investing Vs. Speculating
Every asset, writes Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal, “is an investment in some people’s hands and a speculation in others’. So it isn’t what you buy, but rather…
Benjamin Graham Inspired Picks
In his book The Intelligent Investor, the “Father of Value Investing” (and Warren Buffett’s mentor) drives home the importance of evaluating a business’s fundamentals before investing. In a recent article…
Graham and Buffett Back-to-School Picks
There’s a wide range of expectations for the retail sector with respect to this year’s back-to-school shopping results. In a recent article for Forbes, Validea CEO John Reese offers some…
Graham and Buffett Disciple Tops the Charts in 2015
Deena Friedman manages the Fidelity Select Retailing Portfolio, which has the highest 2015 return among mutual funds. With a return of over 18%, Barron’s notes that her “stock-picking easily outperformed…
Fidelity PM Learns from Value Greats like Buffett, Graham and Klarman
Chuck Myers, who heads the Fidelity Small Cap Discovery Fund, shared some of the lessons he has learned as a value investor at the recent CFA Institute Equity and Valuation…
Why Decades-Old Strategies Still Beat The Market Today
With so much having changed in the financial world over the years, can decades-old investment strategies still work today? Validea CEO John P. Reese says they certainly can. (more…)
What Buffett Learned From Ben Graham
While he was no doubt born with some natural gifts, Warren Buffett didn’t become history’s greatest investor without any help. Buffett many times has praised his mentor, the late, great…
Reese On Why So Few Can Follow Lynch & Buffett's Approaches
In an interview with Canada’s Business News Network, Validea CEO John P. Reese recently discussed how investors can profit from the strategies of history’s best money managers — and why…
