<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>The Graham Investor &#187; Intelligent Investor</title> <atom:link href="http://www.grahaminvestor.com/category/intelligent-investor/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com</link> <description>Intelligent Value Investing</description> <lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:45:35 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0</generator> <item><title>How to Become a Great Investor</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/06/26/how-to-become-a-great-investor/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/06/26/how-to-become-a-great-investor/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 05:09:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[General]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How To]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.grahaminvestor.com/?p=700</guid> <description><![CDATA[We all want to emulate Buffett, Graham, Klarman, Ruane, Greenblatt et al. Their success as value investors is not in doubt. But how did they achieve it? I recently read several related books: &#8220;Bounce&#8221; by Matthew Syed, Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s &#8220;Outliers&#8221; and Levitt &#038; Dubner&#8217;s excellent sequel to &#8220;Freakonomics&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;SuperFreakonomics&#8221;. 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Selling stock is easy &#8211; knowing when to sell maybe not so much. Or is it? It certainly should be. Ben Graham variously suggests keeping stocks for 2 years, and/or selling 50% of a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/03/05/on-selling-some-thoughts-on-when-to-fold-em/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>12</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Graham&#8217;s 50 Year Study &#8211; Foolproof?</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/01/03/grahams-50-year-study-foolproof/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2010/01/03/grahams-50-year-study-foolproof/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:13:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Benjamin Graham]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.grahaminvestor.com/?p=571</guid> <description><![CDATA[In 1976, Hartman L. Butler spent an hour with Benjamin Graham and the interview is recorded within a fine study of Graham&#8217;s life published by The Financial Analysts Research Foundation. 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Companies with strong brand equity, usually those that have been building brand equity for years via clever or persistent marketing such as Coca Cola, Nike, etc., often prove to be better investments even when their price drops, because [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/12/13/just-how-important-is-brand-equity/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Stock Tools &#8211; Intrinsic Value</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/10/stock-tools-intrinsic-value/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/10/stock-tools-intrinsic-value/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:30:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Analyzing Financial Statements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Screens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intrinsic Value]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://wp.grahaminvestor.com/?p=349</guid> <description><![CDATA[The word intrinsic comes from the latin intrinsecus meaning &#8220;inward&#8221;. In modern parlance, intrinsic means &#8220;belonging to a thing by its very nature&#8221;. The intrinsic value of a stock will thus be very personal to that stock, unique even, and will be totally unrelated to the intrinsic value of another stock. In a sense, intrinsic [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/10/stock-tools-intrinsic-value/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Value Investing and Life Assurance</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/02/value-investing-and-life-assurance/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/02/value-investing-and-life-assurance/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:04:36 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Margin of Safety]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Value Investing]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://wp.grahaminvestor.com/?p=336</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently went through the process of applying for term life assurance, and it occurred to me that life assurance has several similarities to investing in value stocks. When you buy term life assurance, you decide the term, and pay a fixed amount each month; buying stocks, via dollar-cost averaging for example, is much the [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/06/02/value-investing-and-life-assurance/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Graham &#8220;Bargain Stock&#8221; Sentiment Indicator</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/05/26/a-graham-bargain-stock-sentiment-indicator/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/05/26/a-graham-bargain-stock-sentiment-indicator/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 05:15:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Altman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NCAV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Piotroski]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Russell 2000]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Screens]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://wp.grahaminvestor.com/?p=326</guid> <description><![CDATA[]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/05/26/a-graham-bargain-stock-sentiment-indicator/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Benjamin Graham Mutual Fund</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/05/22/the-benjamin-graham-mutual-fund/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/05/22/the-benjamin-graham-mutual-fund/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 13:42:02 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Screen Performance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Screens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mutual Fund]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://wp.grahaminvestor.com/?p=323</guid> <description><![CDATA[The title is a little tongue-in-cheek, but what if you could put together your own Mutual Fund populated with Ben Graham &#8220;Bargain Issues&#8221;. If Graham himself managed a mutual fund, this might be exactly what he would do. With the recent market plunge at the beginning of 2009, several followers of The Graham Investor emailed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2009/05/22/the-benjamin-graham-mutual-fund/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Da Vinci Code of Wall Street. Or Not?</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2008/08/14/the-da-vinci-code-of-wall-street-or-not/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2008/08/14/the-da-vinci-code-of-wall-street-or-not/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:03:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Too Good to Be True]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fibonacci]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://wp.grahaminvestor.com/?p=311</guid> <description><![CDATA[The latest marketing hype to hit my mailbox comes from a newsletter called 1-2-3 Trader and purports to have cracked &#8220;Wall Street&#8217;s Da Vinci Code&#8221;. The blurb reads somewhat breathlessly like the Dan Brown Novel &#8211; the protagonist here being a fellow named Stanton, a former Wall Street Insider (funny how they&#8217;re always former Wall [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2008/08/14/the-da-vinci-code-of-wall-street-or-not/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Why Wall Street Values Earnings</title><link>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2008/08/14/why-wall-street-values-earnings/</link> <comments>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2008/08/14/why-wall-street-values-earnings/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:14:15 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>The Graham Investor</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Analyzing Financial Statements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How To]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Intelligent Investor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[EPS]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://wp.grahaminvestor.com/?p=316</guid> <description><![CDATA[Wall Street Analysts seem to be focused on Earnings, Earnings Estimates, and Earnings Reports &#8211; sometimes obsessively so. It&#8217;s often hard for investors to understand why; surely there are other factors such as sales growth, cash flow, return on equity, etc? There are indeed but, to understand why EPS gets such a huge focus, we [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.grahaminvestor.com/2008/08/14/why-wall-street-values-earnings/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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