This is way too long to read, unless of course you think that understanding business strategy, management, and execution are important variables in investing for
Yes, I tend to see “things in many things” through the lens of investment management, information processing, and the tendencies of behavioral bias. One Stewart
If a PM can get 80% up to speed in 3 minutes of reading before he starts to exercise judgment and how to allocate time, that guts a lot of the graduating class of 2026 and Office licenses
I am focused on the money. I have wasted a lot of time in this space and by no means claim my Black 8 Ball has it wired. But at the present time, the “math” on trillions doesn’t produce a tangible return to those spending it.
Click on the image a PDF version of the letter. We are awash in high frequency yack and CSC has determined NOT to comment on
I love quant shops that produce well-reasoned thought pieces with all that “data and stuff” that support well-reasoned and well written pieces generated here at
It is a long held opinion that supersized voting rights in excess of economic interests is a terrible idea.
If one practices “active” investment management, then one implicitly assumes there is some form of inefficiency in financial markets and we can debate its source over cocktails one night. Blackrock…
While all else is never equal, we freeze this debate to make this point. Companies that end up staying in business tend to produce some
From time to time, we get very involved with our investments at the Board level. And one of the points we try to drive through
From the Charles Skorina newsletter: Chief investment officers, investment staffs (and OCIOs) earn serious money for their schools and cost a relative pittance to maintain.
The concept of holding yourself out to the world as someone still willing to selectively accept “other people’s money” in a professional money management capacity
Corpgov.law.harvard.edu is actually a pretty good website that captures most of the bigger governance issues of the day and is a late 2025 signup. This
There has been a lot of ink spilled on the debate entitled: Are Private Fund Sponsors Marking Their Reported NAV to Market or Cost? It
I am not going to insult the intelligence of the reader by making a list of claims for the future, which is common theatre this
But not the way the fine folks at VerdadCap.com are thinking in another wise, interesting piece. Without the benefit of AI, I read their latest
PE Manager is selling an investment in Fund 1 to its Fund 2 at a discounted value and thus screwing investors in Fund 1.
There is NOT a word for word recitation of the ever expanding mostly made-up laundry list of disclaimers to start an earnings call. Note “there
Having no “plan” makes no sense. Having an “always behind the 8-Ball late, rigid asset allocation that perennially finds new things to do at the
The democratization of private equity is not democracy, it is marketing.
Said another way, watching professional tennis and some other things one might see on screens are really not “models” for activities in which many participate,
The recent fun and games involving the NBA and the gambling indictments are certainly amusing on their own merits, but do they say something
If you don’t know who Mark Leonard is, go look at long term stock chart of Constellation Software. And then you might say his opinion
“Few practice long-term investing, and thus supply is constrained, which contributes to long-term performance advantages.” Operators are standing by.
It is good, clean fun to have a day to be right for reasons that didn’t seem to matter the day before. With a nice
The April Proxy statement says 89% of the CEO’s pay is at risk. This is the stock chart. Mr. Trerotola is retiring this year. What
Tricolor, the third-largest used auto retailer in Texas and California, has more than $1 billion in assets and over $1 billion in liabilities, with more
