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Oak Value Fund Managers Comment on Top Holdings

by investing on April 19, 2010

Oak Value Fund Managers Comment on Top Holdings
By guruek. David Carr and his colleagues at Oak Value Fund (OAKVX) published their 1Q10 Shareholder letter. For the quarter ended on March 31, 2010, the fund returned 4.91%, modestly underperforming the S&P 500 Index return of 5.39%. We have learned not to judge their performance by one quarter’s number, especially the difference is so miniscule. Over the past 10 years, the fund returned 3.71 …

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Prem C. Jain’s ‘Buffett Beyond Value’ Highlights Important Lessons

April 7, 2010 Stock investing

Prem C. Jain’s ‘Buffett Beyond Value’ Highlights Important Lessons By Ravi Nagarajan. “How do you beat world chess champion Bobby Fischer? Yes, it is a bit of a trick question. If you want to beat Bobby Fischer, you don’t play chess with him. You find a game that you can win.” – Buffett Beyond Value [...]

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Don’t Touch These 3 Huge Value Traps

March 11, 2010 Stock investing

Don’t Touch These 3 Huge Value Traps The truth about contrarian investing. Read more on The Motley Fool

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7 steps to get maximum 401(k) value

February 28, 2010 Stock investing

7 steps to get maximum 401(k) value Everyone wants to maximize their 401k plan’s value, right? Here are seven tips to smooth out the bumps and get the most out of your retirement plan. Read more on KFJX Pittsburg

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Value Line’s Ranking System Failed Miserably in 2009

January 25, 2010 Stock investing

Value Line’s Ranking System Failed Miserably in 2009 By Dr. Paul Price. Value Line released its own figures for the record of their timeliness rankings for 2009 in their Jan. 29, 2010 edition [available on-line today]. Read more » » Read more on Guru Focus

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What is value investing, and how can I make it work for me?

January 21, 2010 Stock investing

What is value investing, and how can I make it work for me? Value investors like to invest in stocks they think are undervalued by the stock market — and use financial analytical tools to back up their judgment. Growth investors base their decisions mainly on a stock’s price and their confidence in a company’s [...]

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5 Value Traps to Avoid Right Now

January 14, 2010 Stock investing

5 Value Traps to Avoid Right Now Get out of these traps before it’s too late. Read more on The Motley Fool

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The 5 Keys to Value Investing

December 16, 2009 Stock investing

Review “…a great how-to guide for both beginning and experienced value investors…a terrific addition on this time-tested methodology.” — Eric T. McKissack, Vice Chairman, Ariel Capital Management/Ariel Mutual Funds”practical, insightful, and a great roadmap to not only value investing but how to make money in the stock market.” — Joel Greenblatt, Managing Partner, Gotham Capital [...]

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How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World’s Greatest Value Investor

November 28, 2009 Stock investing

A $10,000 investment in Warren Buffett’s original 1956 portfolio would today be worth a staggering $250 million … after taxes! What are his investing secrets? How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett contains the answers and shows, step-by-profitable-step, how any investor can follow Buffett’s path to consistently find bargains in all markets: up, down, or [...]

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Wall Street’s Buried Treasure: The Low-Priced Value Investing Approach to Finding Great Stocks

November 4, 2009 Stock investing

Praise for Wall Street’s Buried Treasure “Mr. Houtkin has provided the reader with a wonderful education on a great strategy that has the potential to turn a very limited risk investment into an extraordinarily high return. He makes the critical distinction between penny stocks and serious opportunities available to the low-priced value investor using important [...]

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Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

October 14, 2009 Socially responsible investing

From Publishers Weekly Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though “no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course,” Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set [...]

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Investing the Templeton Way: The Market-Beating Strategies of Value Investing’s Legendary Bargain Hunter

September 28, 2009 Stock investing

“To buy when others are despondently selling and to sell when others are avidly buying requires the greatest fortitude and pays the greatest ultimate rewards.”-Sir John Templeton Called the “greatest stock picker of the century” by Money magazine, legendary fund manager Sir John Templeton is revered as one of the world’s premiere value investors, widely [...]

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How Buffett Does It: 24 Simple Investing Strategies from the World’s Greatest Value Investor

September 18, 2009 Stock investing

A concise, no-nonsense rulebook for investors looking to achieve Buffett-like results Warren Buffett is one of the wealthiest investor in the world. Millions of independent investors follow his every move. But why Buffett? What signs does he see that others miss? And more important, what can investors do to follow Buffett’s path to investment and [...]

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Living Above the Store: Building a Business That Creates Value, Inspires Change, and Restores Land and Community–How One Family Business Transformed Itself … Using Sustainable Management Practices

September 13, 2009 Socially responsible investing

Review “Living Above the Store breaks the mold on business writing. This is a tale of three generations of the Melaver family, the purported end of the world, and the true nature of enterprise. It is a book about the greening of business to be sure, but it is literature first, brilliant disquisitions and narratives [...]

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The Vest Pocket Guide to Value Investing: Winning & Practical Techniques for Portfolio Management & Individual Stock Selection

September 5, 2009 Stock investing

No description for this product could be found, but have a look over at Amazon for reviews and other information. Buy The Vest Pocket Guide to Value Investing: Winning & Practical Techniques for Portfolio Management & Individual Stock Selection at Amazon

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Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

September 4, 2009 Socially responsible investing

Review “No one can doubt there’s an urgent need to think clearly about investing, since many investors in Silicon Valley companies have suffered a stock market decline comparable to the Crash of ’29. The burned investor could find no better starting place than this superb book by four New York City value investors, all descended [...]

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The Financial Times Guide to Value Investing: How to Become a Disciplined Investor

September 4, 2009 Stock investing

‘Glen Arnold makes complex investment concepts understandable. He explains what the masters of the investment world have done to achieve their status.’ David Shapiro, Stamford Associates ‘An excellent intorduction to value investing, some of its most famous practitioners and the investments that made them rich.’ Mark Wallace, Rothschild ‘In an age of turbulence, reading this [...]

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Value Investing Interview On Buying Stocks In A Bear Market

August 31, 2009 Stock investing

2008 Interview with Greg Hoffman from the Intelligent Investor on the benefits of investing in bear markets to value investors. Includes Investing advice and stock Recommendations. Sign up for a fr…

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The Little Book of Value Investing

August 21, 2009 Stock investing

From Publishers Weekly Browne’s experience as managing director of investment firm Tweedy, Browne provides examples to support his lessons on value investing, a method of buying stocks that have fallen in price to earn the best return over the long term. Browne uses examples from successful investors (such as Benjamin Graham, Walter Schloss and Warren [...]

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Value Investing Today

August 18, 2009 Stock investing

Updated data and insights to help value investors address the realities of today’s markets On the heels of recent stock market tumbles and deceptions, value investing–the staple of investing greats from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett–has roared back into the spotlight. Value Investing Today returns with a new edition, filled with updated information and advice [...]

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New Era Value Investing: A Disciplined Approach to Buying Value and Growth Stocks

August 13, 2009 Stock investing

Praise for New Era Value Investing “No other book reveals so much about how a portfolio manager looks at the world. You will see how the transformation in the U.S. economy and stock market in the 1990s caused this seasoned value investor to transform her investing discipline to keep pace with the times, and you [...]

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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel

August 9, 2009 Stock investing

Review Among the library of investment books promising no-fail strategies for riches, Benjamin Graham’s classic, The Intelligent Investor, offers no guarantees or gimmicks but overflows with the wisdom at the core of all good portfolio management. The hallmark of Graham’s philosophy is not profit maximization but loss minimization. In this respect, The Intelligent Investor is [...]

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Getting Started in Value Investing

August 1, 2009 Stock investing

An accessible introduction to the proven method of value investing An ardent follower of Warren Buffett-the most high-profile value investor today-author Charles Mizrahi has long believed in the power of this proven approach. Now, with Getting Started in Value Investing, Mizrahi breaks down this successful strategy so that anyone can learn how to use it [...]

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SENSIBLE STOCK INVESTING: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks

July 27, 2009 Stock investing

For the millions of individual stock investors who want to improve their results-and for beginners who want to get started on the right foot-Sensible Stock Investing: How to Pick, Value, and Manage Stocks is a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide.Written for the busy individual, Sensible Stock Investing presents the investment process in three phases: rating companies [...]

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