"Despite delivering good
investment performance over the Fund's first
seven years of operations, I
must remind you that value investing is not designed to outperform in a bull market. In a bull market,
anyone, with any investment strategy or none at all, can do well, often better than value investors. It
is only in a bear market that the value investing discipline becomes especially important because
value investing, virtually alone among strategies, gives you exposure to the upside with limited downside
risk. In a stormy market, the value investing discipline becomes crucial, because it helps you
find your bearings when reassuring landmarks are no longer visible. In a market downturn, momentum
investors cannot find momentum, growth investors worry about a slowdown, and technical analysts
don't like their charts. But the value investing discipline tells you exactly what to analyze, price
versus value, and then what to do, buy at a considerable discount and sell near full value. And,
because you cannot tell what the market is going to do, a value investment discipline is important because
it is the only approach that produces consistently good investment results over a complete market
cycle." (Seth Klarman, 22 december 1997)
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