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Tag: Michael Mauboussin

7 years ago
Mauboussin on the Pitfalls of Using EV/EBITDA in Valuations

An article in Forbes features an interview with Michael Mauboussin, Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management. The interview focused on Mauboussin’s recent paper discussing “the merits and pitfalls of…

7 years ago
The Underappreciated Role of Luck in Investing

By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) —  The $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot had a lot of people daydreaming about what they would do if they won such a windfall. With…

7 years ago
Mauboussin on the Language of Likelihood

In a recent article for the Harvard Business Review, authors Andrew and Michael Mauboussin discuss the language of probability and share analysis that shows how its subjective nature can lead…

8 years ago
Mauboussin Offers Insights on Active Management

A recent Forbes article offers comments and insights gathered in a recent interview with Michael Mauboussin, Director of Research at BlueMountain Capital Management (formerly Head of Global Financial Strategies at…

8 years ago
Luck or Skill? Focus on the Process, not Performance.

By John Reese (@guruinvestor) —  Is it better to be lucky or smart? When it comes to investing, I think we can all agree that success arises from a combination…

8 years ago
Some Thoughts On Improving the Predictive Value of Morningstar's Ratings

By Jack M. Forehand (@practicalquant) —  The Wall Street Journal article last week that called into question the predictive value of Morningstar star ratings has caused a lot of debate…

8 years ago
Zweig: The Challenge of a Smaller Stock Pool

For stock pickers, choosing among a smaller universe of stocks is much more difficult, writes Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Zweig cites data from the University of…

9 years ago
Mauboussin on Active Vs. Passive Management

A paper co-authored by Michael Mauboussin of Credit Suisse addresses important issues to consider in relation to the continued and increasing shift from active toward passive fund management. Those investors…

9 years ago
What Makes a Great Investor? Count to Ten.

“Perhaps the single greatest error in the investment business is a failure to distinguish between the knowledge of a company’s fundamentals and the expectations implied by the market price,” writes…

10 years ago
4 Ways On How to Improve Forecasting Skills, a Credit Suisse Report by Mauboussin

In the aggregate, forecasters may be “roughly as accurate as a dart-throwing chimp,” but some forecasters are particularly and consistently far better than average. Credit Suisse reports that the book Superforecasting: The Art and…

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