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Billionaire investor Warren Buffett once said, “The best thing I ever did was choose the right heroes.” Who we follow greatly affects where we end up. One book that has had probably the single greatest impact on Buffett’s life and…
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Imagine if you could get the same investing advice that Warren Buffett got when he was just starting out. Just think of what it would be like to learn from Warren Buffett’s mentor the way he did. That mentor –…
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As 2016 rolls to a close, I thought it would be a good idea to reflect on the past year. To that end, here are the 16 most popular Vintage Value Investing articles from 2016! Enjoy!!! 1. How to Invest in…
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In The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham famously writes that: “Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike.” Graham viewed any purchase of a stock or bond as an investment in a business, rather than the purchase of just a piece of paper. And…
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I recently finished reading Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, and van Biema. For reference, co-author Bruce Greenwald is a professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business (the best business school in the world for value investing and the alma…
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Every investor is all too familiar with market volatility. It’s one of the only sure-fire things in the stock market. Every day your portfolio will end as a different number than the day prior, for better or for worse. …
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The concept of “margin of safety” – which originates from Benjamin Graham’s earliest teachings – is a core tenet of value investing. As Graham wrote in the very last chapter of The Intelligent Investor (Chapter 20:“Margin of Safety” as the Central…
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Benjamin Graham is often referred to as “the father of investing” – and for good reason. Warren Buffett was one of Graham’s students at Columbia University (and the only one to have ever received an A in his class). Many other…
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Greece, China, Russia. ISIS. Cyber security. North Korea. Oil Prices. Stock market valuations. The Fed’s interest rate policy. Open any newspaper and it’s hard to choose which headline will be the first to knock stocks back into the red and blow…
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Imagine this scene: A boxer sits in one corner of the ring, his shoulders hunched as his trainer pours water on his head, matting his greying hair across his forehead. He sits steady and still as his hands are wrapped and…
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