by John Huber | Mar 10, 2014 | Investment Philosophy, Shareholder Letters & Reports, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
“Investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike”. – Ben Graham, The Intelligent Investor This is the time of year that I always look forward to for a variety of reasons. Spring is near in my area of the United States, college basketball...
by John Huber | Feb 11, 2014 | Investment Philosophy, Joel Greenblatt, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
In part 1 of this post, I mentioned I caught a video interview with Joel Greenblatt at Morningstar. In the video, Greenblatt talks about indexing, and things that are not necessarily interesting to me and my investment strategy, but he also had some brief comments on...
by John Huber | Feb 6, 2014 | General Thoughts, Investment Philosophy, Joel Greenblatt, Superinvestors, Warren Buffett
I recently watched a video of Joel Greenblatt with Morningstar. Most of the video discusses the index approach to investing using a value weight (as opposed to equal weight or market weight, which most indexes use). I’m not that interested in indexing, although for...
by John Huber | Jan 6, 2014 | Ben Graham, Books, Education, How to Improve Results, Investment Philosophy, Superinvestors
Ben Graham is known largely for writing two of the most cited books in the field of value investing. Of course, in addition to being an outstanding writer and educator, he was a proficient practitioner of the investment field as well—a dual distinction that is...
by John Huber | Dec 13, 2013 | Case Studies, General Thoughts, Industry-Banks, Superinvestors, Think Differently, Warren Buffett
I wrote a post about screening for quality bank stocks and another one here about Wells Fargo vs Cheap Community Banks and thought I’d post on some other comments I have here. Some of these thought might sound contradictory (everyone wants to separate stocks...
by John Huber | Oct 25, 2013 | Investment Philosophy, Superinvestors, Think Differently, Walter Schloss, Warren Buffett
Earlier this week I responded to a comment that centered around the role of luck in long term outperformance. Feel free to read my response to the comment in Part 1 of this post where I list the #1 main reason why most people don’t replicate the results of...
