On Seeking Alpha, "Integrator" (not sure about Twitter presence) is one of my favorite authors along with @FromValue @andrescardenal @EconomyApp
Bert Hochfeld
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Few of my fav articles of his.
1⃣ The 5 Elements That Make For An Outstanding Business
-Seek Economic Moats in any investment
-Having an awareness of your circle of competence
-Investing for the ultra long term
-Take advantage of a bargain hiding in plain sight
-Preservation of Capital, Above all
3⃣ 5 Common Mistakes In Evaluating High-Growth Companies
-It has already gone up so much.
-Fearing short interest
-Fearing future Competition
-Fearing stock dilution due to secondary offerings
-Fearing current losses
4⃣ Ways Investors Cheat Themselves Out Of Long-Term Wealth Creators
-This business doesn't make any money!
-Thinking that you're too late
-Stock volatility
-High Valuation
-About Voting rights
-Aversion to 'averaging up'
6⃣ 5 Important Lessons From The 'Tech Selloff' (Sep 2020)
-Valuation has, and always will matter
-Declines need to be put in to longer-term context
-Focus on fundamentals, not stock price movements
-Resist the temptation to exit winners
-Focus on quality
-Making mistakes early
-Understanding where high yield traps lurk
-Developing conviction in your investing style
-Battle harden your approach
-Stay the course
-Don't sell your winners too early
-If you invest during difficult times, do so with high conviction
-Not Diworsifying
-Avoid margin lending
-Not giving up my 'long-term market outlook' advantage
🔟The Most Important Secular Trends And How To Play Them
-On-premise enterprise infrastructure to the cloud
-Physical payments to digital payments
-Physical commerce to e-commerce
-Linear TV to online content
Investing in its purest sense (Analysis of Intrinsic value, buying with Margin of Safety) has been out of fashion recently, but here's an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning the core concepts.
h/t @Vintage_Value👏
LESSON #1: Government policy can greatly affect your investment portfolio, for good or ill.
LESSON #2: Bull markets climb a wall of worry.
LESSON #3: Don’t fight the Fed. Adjust your portfolio when money is tight, and again when money is easy.
LESSON #4: Gold is money and the best insurance against an inflationary future and bad government policy, but don’t go overboard buying gold. (Not for everyone, but the author mentions that it should be done only as insurance. I guess Bitcoin is the proxy for it these days).
1) On limitations of traditional DCF & other analysis (that assume low terminal growth & mean-reverting) when it comes to exceptionally durable businesses.
Thanks Irnest. My investing philosophy is that we need to start with good first principles/frameworks like the ones in that document, but then adapt it to the current Business/Market environment.