16
Jun
By Mark Melin
Do Facebook likes define a celebrity?
Matt Lauer launches a Facebook page and enters the popularity race
Fresh off the heels of landing a reported $20 to $25 million contract, NBC... read more
21
Jan
By VW Staff
This valuation checklist is based on multiple sources, including:
a) Professor Damodaran's valuation class
b) My experience valuing companies
c) Lessons learnt from Buffett, Munger, O'glove, Greenwald, Greenblatt, Muhlenkamp, Bushee, Pabrai, Spier, Tilson,... read more
08
Oct
By
The Great Rotation, the idea that there will be a big shift from bonds into equities once central banks stop injecting cash into markets around the world, has been... read more
13
Aug
By Rupert Hargreaves
Société Générale's 'expensive stocks with poor earnings quality screen', which is published monthly, seeks to unearth the market's most undesirable stocks -- if you're looking for short ideas the report is... read more
04
Aug
By Mark Melin
When the big banks exit a market niche, it turns out small, entrepreneurial hedge funds have been filling the gap with interesting results.
Big banks cutting risky trading operations
As the... read more
18
May
By Guest Post
For more than 100 years, unless you were an industry insider or had connections to DeBeers, the prospect of investing in diamonds was completely out of reach. However, for... read more
05
Dec
By
The bullish mood continues as Citi predicts that not only will equities gain 15% worldwide, they even think there is room for further growth from re-ratings by year-end 2014.... read more
28
Oct
By Mark Melin
With nearly 2/3 of companies in the U.S. impacted by fraud, it is important that a fraud whistle-blower program is enacted, a Harvard Law School blog post argues.
The point... read more
03
Mar
By VW Staff
Edward Bramson’s Sherborne Investors has accumulated a 10.24% stake in Electra Private Equity Plc (LON:ELTA) which is an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange and focused on... read more
21
Jan
By Rupert Hargreaves
Stanley Capital, the $190 million long/short equity hedge fund, reported a loss of -13.9% in December following a small gain in November and another double-digit decline in October. This... read more
