Value Investing: Buy Cheap, Obscure and Out of Fashion

[AFRIKTODAY]

You want to improve my wealth? Show me your portfolio!

[1PeaceNation]

Cheap and Boring and Small and Obscure.... That is the secret.

[Tuxster3]

I hope you're also telling your students that small caps tend to be risky.

You should tell your students to focus on boring, out of favor, and undervalued mid and large cap stocks.

Small cap companies can be beaten down for a many reasons, like they're too under capitalized to do what they want to do.

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[VivekRajcoomar]

Is he...is he Peter from Family Guy?

[AFRIKTODAY]

Value investing is the best way to approach stock analysis but not necessarily Investing itself. There are a lot of issues that should be taken into consideration before engaging in buying stocks. Personally, I do not like stocks at all. To me, they are a way to enrich the insiders of a company and the investment bankers who price those stocks on the market. The retail investor is usually the last one on the line!

[millenium2003]

the question is how much is he worth?....

[49fiori]

Biggest value investing advice you will ever get "Stay away from the markets, stay away from stocks."

[gooberdude]

@49fiori

Staying away from equities in the long run has been the surest way earn subpar returns and risking losing buying power to inflation in the long term. Do yourself a favor and divorce yourself from the recent events of the market and look at 50-100 year charts of inflation, stock indexes, and bond returns. Then talk.

[49fiori]

@gooberdude I was referring to individual investors. Passive investors should stay away from the markets, they have no business, no knowledge, and especially no time to find and to properly value a stock. Value investing, or simply it should just be called investing because everything else is speculation should and must only be reserved to institutional investors who do this for a living. I know very well that DJIA went from 66 in 1921 to 12,600 today, but how many lost money during this period?

[AFRIKTODAY]

@49fiori I agree with you!

[anka893]

people actually go into debt to listen to this guy?wtf lol

[DoughJames]

@anka893 People go into debt to get an MBA so that they can get an interview with the top investment banks and private equity firms. He is just a bump along the road :-)

[evilclown99]

If you get an education in "value investing" what value will you have as an employee if the majority of financial employers (big funds, wall street) don't value "value investing" ?

[evilclown99]

Warren Buffett is the best.

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[WebmasterWSDF]

A solid overview of how I invest. You have to be very disciplined and like spending a lot of time searching. I do.

[1Grosvenor3]

@WebmasterWSDF can i ask what the value of your complete portfolio is trading at as of January 05 2011 please?

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[digitally404]

Buying small cap is definitely not a value investing principle.

[jayangli]

This is a fucking idiot!! buy stocks out of fashion, ugly etc. oh Buffet buys coca cola and businesses that have an advantage over others. if this guy is teaching buffet style of value investing, he is talking shit to these people

[jayangli]

@jayangli sort your voice out you fucking fat idiot!

[jayangli]

those students need to listen to his gay voice all day

[cathkin33]

go against the herd ,but stick with the big multinationals .....the little ones can get forgotten and never recover.

[HoSayLiaoLah]

@cathkin33

Don't be afraid of the small companies. If a business is worth $1 and u buy it for $0.50 and then somehow, it does not recovers, u can always liquidate the company.

[xnoumenon]

For those of you saying there's no evidence value investing works, you should do some research. It's been back tested and proven. It's also the most consistently performing theory amongst top investors around the world. Just look at Warren Buffet's success.

As for the idea that this guy should be rich just because he is teaching investment strategies. Just because you know how to invest doesn't mean you have the money to invest. You won't retire early investing $20k let alone $5k without luck.

[Fliujniligui]

I did it and it works. Bought bank and real estate stocks with strong balance sheet and business model while the market was crashing. Doubled my net worth doing it and recovered all the previous losses and more. Seriously, patience and conviction are needed, but the thing pays off well.

[starfireucsd]

I don't see that much or if any "legitimate evidence" for this guy's claim...

[Redfingers]

Um, you'll work out if you want to get laid and not get made fun of.

[m0nkeybl1tz]

Heh, that's something I've always wondered. Like on all those infomercials, if you're such a financial genius, why do you have to sell people those tapes?

[mrzack888]

if this guy is so smart, how come he's still teaching and overweight?

[IamtheVOICE123]

If you knew anything about investments you would not make such a reduclous claim

[mrzack888]

how about America's entire financial system is a fraud.

[IamtheVOICE123]

LMFAO! Let me guess, money is fake and the monetary system is an illusion? Well I know that already. But first this is simply the mathematics involved in investments. Also investments do not just coorelate to money; it also involves investing time and resources as well.

[mrzack888]

you know it's an illusion, yet you still defend an institution and its made up mathematics created 20 years ago that is clearly caused the global meltdown and is going to be in a Bear Market for god knows how long.

[IamtheVOICE123]

I am not defending the monetary based system you twist. I am merely defending the mathematics which constitute as investments in the general of investments. Investment's if I remember correctly were commonly referred before the stock market concept was created; to the investment of time, labor, and energy into developing ideas, technology, science, and theories. The mathematics involved in investment go back to 256BC, not 20 years ago.

[mrzack888]

I think it was YOU that said "If you knew anything about investments you would not make such a reduclous claim".

I don't recall anything about mathematics.

who the twit now? huh?

[IamtheVOICE123]

You were insulting his explanations and thus refutting it by thus saying "He's in school teaching college classes and he is fat, not in a mansion so he is not that smart."

His entire lecture had to do with the mathematics involved in investments. Your argument is a logical fallacy.

[sexlessparents]

uhhhhhhh ur a retard

[IamtheVOICE123]

Ah... so you reduce yourself to the tactic of a troll.

*claps*

Bravo.

[sexlessparents]

smart people can be fat ,

cuz if your rich , who wants to work out ,

just eat steak and fine wine everyday

[ArcaneKarma]

"if this guy is so smart, how come he's still teaching and overweight?"

And if yer so smart how comes U ant rich???

haha classic!

[mrzack888]

how do you know i'm not rich? Bitch.

ahhahahha, classic.

[ArcaneKarma]

It wouldn't surprise me if you were. I'm well off myself, and it never ceases to amaze me how blinded my peers can become. Luck is the determinative factor that separates poor but hard working men from rich ones.

Intellect comes in dead last.

[observer855]

@ArcaneKarma Luck matters, but I wouldn't say intellect comes dead last. There are virtually no retarded self-made millionaires. Moreover, if you look at the worlds richest (not inherited but self-created) you find extremely high-IQ individiuals (bill gates, soros, buffett etc etc. ) Again, not saying luck isn't important, but to say intelligence doesn't count is ridiculous.

unless you get completely fate-screwed somehow, if a brilliant person wants to make a decent living, he/she can.

[ArcaneKarma]

Not that you sound terribly intelligent or unintelligent.

[guillermogg75]

First, how do you know he is not rich (he is advising many funds, like berkshire hathway. Second, he was ill of his tyroids that is why he is fat.

Be more respectful!

[ArcaneKarma]

don't tell me; tell mrzack888.

I was defending the educator.

[jayangli]

@guillermogg75 is he teaching warren buffet investing?

[jayangli]

agree, he talks like a woman