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Perils of Investing in Popular Narratives

Truemind Capital

The problem is the level of valuations. Popular investment sectors or themes gain momentum as more investors join, driving prices much higher than the worth of the underlying assets. Because it has been a popular narrative for quite some time. But, what’s the problem with investing in popular narratives?

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Separating Winners from Losers in Growth Investing: The Mohanram Approach

Validea

In his 2005 research paper titled “Separating Winners from Losers among Low Book-to-Market Stocks using Financial Statement Analysis,” accounting professor Partha Mohanram laid out a strategy for finding promising growth stocks trading at attractive valuations. ROA and 10.7% ROA and 13.2% ROA and 13.2%

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John Furey On How Multi-Billion-Dollar RIAs and Private Equity Are Reshaping the RIA Landscape

Steve Sanduski

John Furey and I discuss: John’s thoughts on the 2005-2010 “breakaway movement” that created so many new RIAs versus where the industry is today. Why there is a disconnect between the valuation level of private advisory firms and publicly traded firms. .”

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Tata Technologies IPO Review – GMP, Details & Much More

Trade Brains

In 2005, the Company acquired a UK-based ER&D Company named INCAT International. When we look closely at its Balance Sheet we realise that Trade Receivables are its biggest Asset constituting 21.27% of the total Balance Sheet. The Company has Contract Assets worth Rs. KPIT currently trades at the highest PE of 82.6x.

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Looking at the Rise of Money Losing Companies

Validea

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article where I looked at the valuation of the median stock and how it has changed over time. Year End Date Negative Earner Percentage 12/30/2005 1.1% Year End Date Negative Earner Percentage 12/30/2005 30.3% By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® ( @practicalquant ) —. 12/29/2006 1.2% 12/31/2007 1.0%

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Transcript: Marta Norton

The Big Picture

They advise or directly manage about $250 billion in flying assets. So I applied and was hired as an ETF analyst in 2005. And so Morningstar coverage was really just getting started on ETFs, right in the 2005, period. RITHOLTZ: So how do you find your way from economist to analyst to asset manager? NORTON: Right.

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Transcript: David Snyderman, Magnetar Capital

The Big Picture

So Magnetar launches in 2005 with some capital, and you joined you, you weren’t one of the original founders, but you joined not long afterwards. So back then you, you probably remember in 2005, you know, there were a lot of what they called pod shops. 00:08:45 [Speaker Changed] Huh, interesting. H how did you figure that out?

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