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Jeremy Grantham: Investing Was So Much Easier 40 Years Ago

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The Acquirer’s Multiple® is the value metric financial acquirers use to find takeover targets. Deeply undervalued stocks are good to own because they can be taken over, creating a quick win, or simply revert back to value over time. As the #1 New Release in Amazon Business and Finance The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market describes, portfolios of stocks with a low rank based on The Acquirer’s Multiple® offer market-beating returns over time. Tobias Carlisle is the founder of The Acquirer’s Multiple®. He is the founder of Carbon Beach Asset Management LLC. He is best known as the author of the #1 new release in Amazon’s Business and Finance The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, the Amazon best-sellers Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014), Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012) and Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016). He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law. Johnny Hopkins is a financial analyst who specialises in deep value stocks at The Acquirer’s Multiple®. The Acquirer’s Multiple® is a stock screening website based on the investment strategy described in the book The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market, written by Tobias Carlisle.

Here’s a great podcast with Jeremy Grantham chatting to Barry Ritzholt at Boomberg. When asked about the difference between investing forty years ago compared with today he said:

“The world was so straight forward forty years ago. There was such a limit on the talent in the business. If you showed up and used your brains, you were likely to do pretty well. You didn’t need any help. Now, when I’ve learned all my lessons, the market is so difficult, so full of talent. You need lots of help.”

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