Investors regularly seek wisdom and inspiration from the all-time greats of the investment world. After all, there is only a select group of investors who have managed to outperform consistently on a large scale. Students of business and investing ought […]
Here at GeoInvesting, we try to go beyond the “normal” analysis that everyone else does, the number crunching and modeling and the like. We read. We talk to people. And we embrace different ideas. That is why Dan Gilbert has […]
Active vs Passive investing strategy is a hot topic of discussion within the investment community. Passive investment strategies such as the classical market-weighted indexing are gaining in popularity. Since John Bogle started The Vanguard Group in 1974, its assets have […]
Last Thursday, April 13, 2017, we published our findings on why we are very bearish on Great Basin Scientific (OTC:GBSN) (GBSND), a company that describes itself as a molecular diagnostics company. We commented on what we perceive as a series of bad […]
Yesterday, while reviewing my book notes on value investing , I came across an interesting passage from a classic investment book, “Security Analysis” by Graham and Dodd. “Security Analysis” is considered by many to be the more technical version of […]
How Not to be Your Own Worst Enemy No matter how you spin it, economics and finance are inherently governed by human patterns of behavior. Finance, the markets and the economy are all made up of transactions between people, and […]
When I read the following Warren Buffett quote for the first time it struck me as peculiar. What would cause the normally conservative Warren Buffett to make such a statement? Is it simply that he knew he would never actually […]
Active investing in publicly traded securities is an inherently competitive activity, and people are looking for an investing edge. By definition, active asset management in aggregate produces, gross of fees, the same returns as passively managed money (ignoring frictional costs […]