If you are into value investing and serious about learning more, you might want to consider enrolling in the value-investing seminar offered June 15-19 by Professor George Athanassakos. It is held at the Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing at the University of Western Ontario, and is open to students, finance ...

Hedge fund manager Goodwood Inc., an activist value investor, confirms forced selling in the stock market. “We believe there has been a significant amount of selling recently in some of our core names by other institutions that have been experiencing redemptions,” they note in their latest Monthly Commentary.

“Buy. Hold. And Prosper,” goes the catchy slogan for Canadian mutual-fund company AIC Limited. But it may soon have to change to “Buy. Hold. And Fold,” considering the way net redemptions are wreaking Havoc with AIC Funds’ asset base.

In the second-quarter issue of Contra The Heard investment newsletter (just out), editors Ben Stadelmann and Benj Gallander regale their readers with an amusing account of their recent trip to the Berkshire Hathaway annual general meeting (AGM) in Omaha, Nebraska. A highlight was their dinner at Gorat’s Steak House, Warren ...

If you are an adherent of the value-investing school, you should be focusing on value stocks with the lowest levels of institutional ownership. So says a study by Ludovic Phalippou in the March/April 2008 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal.