In the constant race against the clock, you shouldn’t waste time reading mediocre content. We put together this list of must-read blogs based on feedback from our team of former analysts and additional in-depth research.
1. ValueWalk
Started in 2010, ValueWalk.com offers breaking financial industry news — with a focus on hedge funds, large asset managers, and value investing. The site provides quality content that is important to value investors (most of which is free).
It is read by senior level executives at the largest banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and Fortune 500 companies.
2. The Reformed Broker
This blog was started in November 2008 by the New York City-based financial advisor and CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management, Joshua M. Brown.
The blog covers markets, politics, economics, media, culture and finance. Brown uses “statistics, satire, anecdotes, pop culture references, sarcasm, fact, fantasy and any other device” to communicate his market-related insights.
Brown has been featured in or has written for Fortune, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg, Reuters, and more. He is also an on-air contributor to CNBC.
3. SumZero
This site describes itself as “the world’s largest community exclusively for professional investors, providing quality, peer-reviewed investment research from top analysts and rising stars in the fund industry.” Members describe this site as network-enriching and career-enhancing.
4. Base Hit Investing
John Huber is the portfolio manager of Saber Capital Management, LLC, a value-focused investment firm. Saber’s objective is to compound capital over the long-term by making investments in undervalued stocks of high-quality businesses. A few of his article topics include:
- Case Studies
- Education
- How to Improve Results
- Industry-Banks
- Industry-Insurance
- Industry-Oil
- Industry-Railroads
- Investment Ideas & Company Research
5. Zero Hedge
The mission statement of ZeroHedge on their website gives a good sense of their content:
- to widen the scope of financial, economic and political information available to the professional investing public.
- to skeptically examine and, where necessary, attack the flaccid institution that financial journalism has become.
- to liberate oppressed knowledge.
- to provide analysis uninhibited by political constraint.
Readers can subscribe to their newsletter for daily alerts and a weekly digest of articles.
6. Contrarian Edge
Vitaliy Katsenelson, author of this blog and a couple books, is a former analyst, portfolio manager, and now CEO of Investment Management Associates. His blog posts cover everything from behavioral investing, to capitalism, to cryptocurrency and specific tickers.
7. The Brooklyn Investor
The Brooklyn Investor is somewhat mysterious, in that he doesn’t reveal his real name on his blog. However, he explains that most of his career has been on Wall Street, starting in investment strategy/portfolio management, trading, futures/options and OTC derivatives structuring and trading, proprietary trading, special situations, and systems trading of futures at “one of the big hedge funds.”
He has always been a fan of Warren Buffett and other long term investors, and “it is reasonable to assume that [he is] long stocks that he thinks] are interesting and short the ones that I don’t like etc.” His blog covers everything from AAPL and GOOG to the gold standard.
8. Memos from Howard Marks
Oaktree Capital Management is a global alternative investment management firm with expertise in credit strategies. A section of their website is devoted to insights specifically from their internal team about investment strategies and investment philosophy. Howard Marks (CFA and Co-Chairman of Oaktree) covers topics from index investing to macro-fragility, to algorithmic investing.
9. Berkshire Hathaway Reports
Quarterly and annual reports – also easily accessible within Sentieo Document Search!
10. The Manual of Ideas
Through invitation-only events and member publications, MOI Global fosters a community of intelligent investors united by a passion for lifelong learning. The Manual of Ideas started out nearly a decade ago, focused on content. As the founders went out to gather and generate uniquely differentiated content for value-oriented investors, they came to appreciate the tight-knit value investing community that had been developing for many years thanks to a strong network formed by the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
11. KASE Learning
Whitney Tilson is one of the most public longstanding value investors. Rooted in sharing their half century of experience as value investors and fund managers, Tilson and his long-time partner, Glenn Tongue have produced a multitude of resources on this site.
12. Value Investor Insight
Whitney Tilson also co-founded this monthly newsletter in 2004, in which he and editor in chief John Heins interview two portfolio managers about current topics.
13. Value Investors Club
Value Investors Club is “an exclusive online investment club where top investors share their best ideas.” VIC prides itself in the fact that its members are admitted only because of the strength of their investment ideas, and not their job titles. This selection process adds a number of diverse perspectives the forum.
14. csinvesting
The author of csinvesting has an interesting background: “In my peripatetic life I have been a ruby smuggler, commodity trader, securities analyst, investment banker, and entrepreneur. Each role taught me more about value investing.” His philosophy is for investors to learn from the successes and failures of others, so his blog covers mostly case studies.
15. Value Investing World
Value Investing World is a blog self-described as “dedicated to promoting the multidisciplinary approach to investing and development of – as Charlie Munger describes it – a latticework of mental models…and largely focused on linking to investing and economic material it deems of interest.”
16. Investor Junkie
Articles for everyone from beginner to advanced investors. Topics include everything from “socially responsible investing” to “investing as an expat.”
17. A Wealth of Common Sense
A Wealth of Common Sense focuses on wealth management, investments, financial markets and investor psychology. Author Ben Carlson, CFA, manages portfolios for institutions and individuals at Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Ben has written a few books and has a weekly podcast called “Animal Spirits” which covers financial markets, personal finance, movies and dad life.
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