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Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.
Seth Klarman
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Seth Klarman
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 21
New York City
New York
Seth Andrew Klarman
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When you buy bargains and they become better bargains, it is easy to start to question yourself, which can impair your judgement. Real or imagined concerns about client redemptions, employee defections can greatly influence behavior away from rational.
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When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.
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If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
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Interestingly, we have beaten the market quite handsomely over this time frame, although beating the market has never been our objective. Rather, we have consistently tried not to lose money and, in doing so, have not only protected on the downside but also outperformed on the upside.
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While it might seem that anyone can be a value investor, the essential characteristics of this type of investor-patience, discipline, and risk aversion-may well be genetically determined.
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I think Buffett is a better investor than me because he has a better eye toward what makes a great business. And when I find a great business I'm happy to buy it and hold it. Most businesses don't look so great to me.
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We continue to adhere to a common-sense view of risk - how much we can lose and the probability of losing it. While this perspective may seem over simplisticor even hopelessly outdated, we believe it provides a vital clarity about the true risks in investing.
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When managers are afraid of redemptions, they get liquid. We all saw how many managers went from leveraged long in 2007 to huge net cash in 2008, when the right thing to do in terms of value would have been to do the opposite.
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Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.
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There are no long-term lessons - ever.
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Benjamin Graham wrote, Those with enterprise haven't the money, and those with money haven't the enterprise, to buy stocks when they are cheap.
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Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.
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As Graham, Dodd and Buffett have all said, you should always remember that you don't have to swing at every pitch. You can wait for opportunities that fit your criteria and if you don't find them, patiently wait. Deciding not to panic is still a decision.
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In reality, no one knows what the market will do trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a speculative undertaking.
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A tipping point is invisible, as we just saw in Greece. In most situations, everything appears fine until it's not fine, until, for example, no one shows up at a Treasury auction.
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Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.
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Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.
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Value investing is the discipline of buying shares at a significant discount from their current underlying values and holding them until more of their value is realised. The element of a bargain is the key to the process.
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A value strategy is of little use to the impatient investor since it usually takes time to pay off.
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It is crucial in a sound investment process to search a mile wide than a mile deep with they find something - also.. never stop digging for information.
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