Contrarian investors have long faced off with momentum investors as many favorite stocks like the FAANGs soared for an extended period with no signs of slowing down. But when momentum investing seemed like the way to win, famous contrarians like Warren Buffett were still finding attractive positions. At the Ben Graham Centre’s 2022 Virtual Value Investing Conference on Wednesday, Edward Blain of Orbis Investments outlined his firm’s strategy for contrarian investing and how they put one of Buffett’s well-known quotes to good use in picking stocks. Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more What Does It Mean To Be…
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Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.