Category: Superinvestors

  Joel Greenblatt was previously a fund manager at Gotham Capital and delivered an annualized return of 50% from 1985 to 1994, before returning all capital to its

Warren Buffett Style Portfolio Warren Buffett is one of the most famous investors of all time, and for good reason. This blog (and the rest of the internet)

  One of my favorite investing books of all time is Buffettology, by Mary Buffett and David Clark. In the book, the authors do an excellent job of

  Daniel Kahneman is a professor of behavioral & cognitive psychology at Princeton, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for economics, and author of the best-selling book on

How many is too Many? How many stocks do you have in your portfolio? Should your portfolio hold a large or small number of holdings? It doesn’t help

It’s been a crazy year for Elon Musk and Tesla. This year has seen Tesla’s market cap and stock price surge dramatically, to say the least. At the

In the 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report, Warren Buffett discussed the difference between great businesses, good businesses, and gruesome businesses.  Buffett summarizes it like this: Let’s break down

How much money would you be willing to pay Warren Buffet for advice and words of wisdom on investing? Regardless of how much you’d pay, we all know

Just think about how much you could learn from someone who came from nothing and now has a net worth of over $100 million. How much would you

Buffett Finds His First Love On the week of December 6th 1951, thousands of financial professionals received in their mail that week’s issue of The Commercial and Financial

What if, as an investment opportunity, I offered you a stake in a beverage business that had one drink as their product and that the drink possessed a

You don’t have to search too far to find the many parallels that exist in successful businesses. Leadership, Culture, People; all are examples of things we find time

In 1965 Warren Buffett’s partnership, then known as the Buffett Partnership, took control of a textile company named Berkshire Hathaway. The company was destined to go out of

While increasing regulations on financials have made investment far safer and less volatile, it has also made seeking alpha far more difficult. To earn higher returns on their

True Rags to Riches stories are actually few and far between. We often hear of the biggies; the Jeff Bezos’ story, the Bill Gates story, the Steve Jobs’

One of the keys to sound investing is having the right information. Its everywhere around us; we just need to know where to look. One of my preferred

“It may not be ‘cool’ or sophisticated to operate in a low capability field, but ‘contrast’ is optimised by being a super performer, in the weakest of fields.”

Many of the great Investors have left their mark on our investment world. Some have been innovators, others have been pioneers and all have been performers. And unsurprisingly,

Outperforming the market is hard. Over the last five years, it was easy. Easy if you owned just one stock. The world’s largest. You just had to buy

When Howard Schultz opened his first coffee store in Seattle, he strove to replicate the experience of the coffee houses he’d visited in Italy; a place where people

That chart show the current price for one share of Berkshire Hathaway. That’s a lot of money! For that much cash, you could easily pay for 4 years

Retailing is hard. Staying on top of the industry for decades is even harder. Particularly when the products you sell are technology based and always changing. Which begs

A Grilled Buffett In 2009, the US government was in full panic mode after experiencing one of the worst economic bubbles in history. The government established the Financial

If there is one stock in America you could buy outside Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger’s advice is to choose Costco. He sits on the board. Not surprising Charlie

Whilst I’m a long-time avid follower of all of the Investment Masters, and I have to say a veritable devourer of their collected wisdom, there is nothing more