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Money Managers Are Not Factory Workers
One of the biggest hazards of being a professional money manager is that you are expected to behave in a certain way.
Here’s How Your Investments Can Survive a World of Trouble
Here’s How Your Investments Can Survive a World of Trouble: Focus on quality, moats, recurring revenue, and strong balance sheets.
This Rocky Stock Market Requires An All-Terrain Portfolio
In a rocky market, an All-Terrain portfolio built on quality, valuation, and growth helps investors endure uncertainty and thrive long term.
Finding High-Quality Companies Today
Markets look stretched, but finding high-quality companies at the right price is still possible with patience and a focus on value.
What Not to Buy in Today’s Stock Market
With overvalued stocks everywhere, chasing yield is dangerous. Caution and patience matter more than fear of missing out in today’s market.
How To Stay Rational In the Irrational World
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Read This Before You Buy Your Next Stock
Stock investing research is essential - don’t buy based on articles alone. Test assumptions, dig deeper, and build conviction before investing.
Trump. Embracing Volatility We Are
Trump brings uncertainty, but uncertainty isn’t risk. With the right horizon and research, market volatility can be an investor’s best ally.
Searching for Yield?
Searching for Yield? In a world of debt, negative rates, and inflated stocks, humility and patience may be investors’ best defense.
The Values of Value Investing
What are the real values of value investing? It’s not just cheap stocks—it’s quality, growth, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Time for an All-Terrain Investment Portfolio
In uncertain times, only an all-terrain investment portfolio—anchored in quality, valuation, and growth—can finish the journey intact.
For Investors, Discovering Truth Takes Time
For investors, discovering truth takes time. Short-term moves mean nothing—patience lets fundamentals reveal which stocks are Microsofts or GoPros.
How Investors Should Deal With The Overwhelming Problem Of Understanding The World Economy
Investors struggle with understanding the world economy. Break it down, stress-test your portfolio, and demand a margin of safety.
Downhill Racing Meets Value Investing
Years of easy gains made us all feel like great investors, but when the market shifts, only skill, process, and discipline will keep us standing.
Manifesto – The Values of Value Investing
I rarely share letters we write to IMA’s clients, but I decided to share this “Value Investor’s Manifesto”.
How Emotional Intelligence Can Make You a Better Investor
Investors enjoy the unique luxury of choosing problems that let them maximize the use of not just their IQ but also their EQ — emotional intelligence.
Unraveling the Mystery of Oil and the Swiss Franc
The collapse of oil prices and jump in the Swiss franc have forced me to puzzle over these weighty questions.
Investment Lessons Learned from the Poker Table
“I don’t know.” These three words don’t inspire a lot of confidence in the messenger and probably will not get me invited onto CNBC, but that is exactly what I think about the topic I am about to discuss.
Making Money by Agreeing to Disagree
It is very comfortable and enjoyable to own a company everyone loves. You can brag about it to your neighbor, bring it up at social gatherings.
To Infinity and Beyond? Don’t Be Surprised If the U.S. Stock Market Cracks
In 1986 Jeremy Grantham started to warn his firm’s clients about the eventual bursting of the Japanese stock bubble.
Warren Buffett, Coca-Cola and the Not-So-American Dream
I am going to Omaha for the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. But this is the first time that I find myself respecting Mr. Buffett a little bit less than the year before.
