Musings on Markets

AUGUST 19, 2024

In fact, the business life cycle has become an integral part of the corporate finance, valuation and investing classes that I teach, and in many of the posts that I have written on this blog. Advice on concentrating your portfolio and having a margin of safety, both value investing nostrums, may work with the former but not with the latter.

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Corporate Finance Valuation Investments Finance 98

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To find out more, I speak with Jeremy Schwartz, Global Chief Investment Officer of WisdomTree, leading the firm’s investment strategy team in the construction of equity Indexes, quantitative active strategies and multi-asset Model Portfolios. Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation.

Investments 116

Investments Valuation Construction Concentration 116

Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In parallel, I also noted that investors have to change the way they value and price companies, to reflect where they are in the life cycle, and how different investment philosophies lead you to concentrated picks in different phases of the life cycle.

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Valuation Construction Manufacturing Investments 109

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 20, 2024

And so in the 1990s, I developed the, the late 1980s, early 1990s, I developed a skillset around valuation, in particular discounted cash flow or residual income type models, along with a couple of peers out of the consulting industry. It’s, it’s double concentrated risk. That’s really bad.

Concentration 67

Concentration Valuation Marketing Investments 67

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And when they look at a sector, they want to be long, the very best stocks at the best valuations they can, and short the worst stocks at the worst valuations. It was there that we learned a unique and differentiated approach to portfolio construction and invest in where the output was an on uncorrelated alpha return stream.

Healthcare 62

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 62

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And how do we think about them from a valuation perspective? And actually, that sweet, that collection of strategies, which is in the Morningstar alternatives fund is where a lot of our portfolio managers were turning to at the end of last year when, you know, fixed income is so poor on a prospective basis, equity, valuations are really high.

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Investments Valuation Benchmarking Marketing 52

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 13, 2023

And so we go back to the basics of what our job should be, risk underwriting, risk assessment, asset prices are different from asset valuation. I mean the valuation is the future cash flow discounted at a risk-free rate plus a risk premium. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about valuations relative to risk and reward.

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Investments Banking Entertainment Valuation 57