A Note From Team Cove Street Capital
Dear CSC Partner: In this uncharted mess of circumstances in which we are presently all immersed, unless requested otherwise, we will try to keep our
Dear CSC Partner: In this uncharted mess of circumstances in which we are presently all immersed, unless requested otherwise, we will try to keep our
BREAKING: We interrupt this regularly scheduled letter for a brief and likely useless take on “the virus.” The first issue is that when a
From the 2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Letter to Shareholders: Board of Directors In recent years, both the composition of corporate boards and their purpose
Our favorite new acronym (within an industry that has far too many) is “TINA”. TINA is not the name of a person or object. It
It’s nice to know we’re not alone…although it feels that way sometimes. Source: AYI Q1 2020 10-Q Looks like there were some other shareholders who
Negative Interest Rates and Assorted Fixed Income Weirdness One Claudio Borio, head of the monetary and economic department at the BIS, recently remarked of $14.8
Download Cove Street Capital’s January 2020 Strategy Letter Number 38: “Repetition Can Be a Form of Change.”
While I will cop to a mildly obnoxious habit of introducing references that almost always require an internet search, I also will start this year

Every December our firm is excited to spend time and money toward a charitable cause that is chosen by a different CSC team member each
‘The Second’ Is Best: How El Segundo Grew Into LA’s Premiere Office Market: Commercial Observer
We really wanted to like what we read in the recently-released proxy statement for Acuity Brands (AYI). In response to an awful say-on-pay result from