Tim McElvaine is a value investor based out of Vancouver (incidentally, that’s where I am based as well) who manages about $300 million. Recently, he spoke at the Richard Ivey School of Business (incidentally, that’s where I graduated from) to a keen group of students studying value investing. Many of the topics he covered are of interest to readers of this blog, based on the e-mails I receive from you guys. I often don’t know the answer to many of the questions you ask (such as “When should I sell a stock?” or “What percentage of my portfolio should I allocate to a position?”) but McElvaine adds some interesting thoughts to these and other topics.
Some of the topics that I know many readers will find interesting are as follows:
– A couple of current stock ideas were offered, including Makita and RHJ International
– Discussion of changes in both the supply and demand of gold over the last decade
– Job seeking advice for those aspiring to work for value managers
– How to deal with tough years, where you underperform the market significantly
– The strong effect that position sizes have on returns; you can have a good batting average and still perform poorly depending on position sizes.
You can watch the talk here, but if you’re short on time, you may want to re-visit later as it is over an hour long.
Disclosure: Despite the above-listed “incidentals”, I have no affiliation with McElvaine Investment Management, and nor do I know Tim McElvaine, or any member of his firm, personally.
