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What Is Cryptocurrency? Will Crypto Recover? Here’s What You Should Know
What Is Cryptocurrency? Will Crypto Recover? Here's What You Should Know. I have recently had an opportunity to chat with a person about cryptocurrencies. Just to make sure, we do not provide advice on cryptocurrencies. It is not within our practice. However,...
Revisit “What Causes Inflation”
We have made a note on inflation five years ago. We think it is time to update the data and charts and check how they look like. For the recent inflation debate, we use the data reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics and share our impressions. First, on the...
2020 Stock Market Crash | A Letter, March 26, 2020
During the 2020 stock market crash, we let clients know what we thought, asking to keep calm and distant from the market dynamics. The highest priority is not to get caught by the rise in perceived ambiguity due to the significant movement of the market price. It was...
Why Value Investing Lost Mojo and Some Say It Sucks
Why value investing is performing poorly in the last decade? Why value investing lost mojo and some say it sucks. Did something change structurally? The short answer is yes. Then what has changed the course of so-called value investing that used to be...
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a significant factor in investment management. The intersection between fundamental investment and machine learning prompts a crucial question: What can each learn from the other? The answer is that each field has...
Warren Buffett and IBM
I have been bearish toward IBM for years. However, throughout 2016, Berkshire Hathaway kept remaining as the largest shareholder of IBM. I have a deep respect for Warren Buffet (as I touched on high conviction investing in this article) and IBM is...
What Is Driving The Stock Market
We share our perspectives and present five long term historical charts including return on invested capital using Russell 3000, which is made of 3000 large US companies, as determined by market capitalization. This portfolio of securities represents approximately 98%...
Investment Style and Composition of Total Return
Investment style started to get attention in the mid-90s, and it was used to classify managers' bias by the groups of type of strategic focus. The typical styles include "value vs. growth", "domestic vs. international", and "large-cap vs. small-mid cap". Since then,...
Apple Valuation | Valuing an Excess Cash Company
When dealing with a company valuation with excess cash, what steps to take first? First, you need to make a split. Apple valuation is a very good sample and it can be done in a simple manner. I split Apple into Cash Apple and Operating Apple as follows. Assuming...