Intelligent Investment Today - The Warren Buffett Way
INTELLIGENT INVESTMENT TODAY, a Shortcast "mini-podcast" series each around ten minutes, focusing on the teachings of the father of the craft, Benjamin Graham, teacher and mentor to the most successful investor of all time Warren Buffett.
Designed for the complete novice without any experience in the stock market as well as the more experienced investor wishing to reacquaint themselves with the likes of "Mr Market" and "The margin of safety principle".
Intelligent Investment Today - The Warren Buffett Way
Billy Beane And The Art Of Value Investment On The Sports Field
In this episode we take a look at the interesting case of Billy Beane, the Scout and General manager of the Oakland A's baseball team. Beane took the skills learnt from value investment into the selection and recruitment of undervalued players using quantitative performance data. This allowed middling team with a small budget to compete with the big boys in the sport. We consider the similarities between what Beane did with the Oakland A's and value investment on the stock market and what we can learn from it.