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…
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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…
Ben Graham, Index Fund Fan?
Would Benjamin Graham, the man known as “the father of value investing” and a pioneer in security analysis, have liked plain, generic index funds? In a recent column, Jason Zweig,…
The Two Most Important Pages Of Warren Buffett's 50th Anniversary Shareholder Letter
Warren Buffett’s 50th anniversary letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders has now been analyzed by a myriad of pundits who have dissected just about every sentence of it. But, given that…
How Walter Schloss Became a "Superinvestor"
While not as well known as fellow Columbia University value investors Warren Buffett and Benjamin Graham, Walter Schloss produced one of the best stock investing track records ever. And in a…