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We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

TIP136: Joel Greenblatt - You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Business Podcast)

We Study Billionaires - The Investor’s Podcast Network

Stig Brodersen

Education, Investing, Business

4.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

  • How to take positions in the market with a $5 upside and a $1 downside.
  • How to make money in spin offs.
  • How to make money in risk arbitrage and merger securities.
  • How call options work.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to TIP.

0:02.4

All right. How's everybody doing out there?

0:04.3

So today we've got a really exciting episode for you.

0:08.4

We're going to be talking about a gentleman named Joel Greenblatt.

0:13.0

And for anybody who's not familiar with Joel Greenblatt,

0:16.2

he is a professor up at Columbia Business School,

0:20.0

but he's not only a professor,

0:22.3

he's actually a master at value investing.

0:27.1

And when I say a master, what I mean is he has had huge returns

0:32.4

whenever he had his fund actively run.

0:35.2

And so his fund, the fund that he ran back in the 80s and 90s

0:39.1

was called Gotham Capital.

0:41.4

And he started this fund in 1985.

0:44.2

And in his first year, he had a 70.4% return.

0:48.7

And I know that sounds absolutely insane.

0:51.4

And it is.

0:52.6

But he ran his fund for another nine years after the first year.

0:56.2

He had it open for a total of 10 years.

0:58.8

And here's some of his returns.

1:00.3

He had 53%, 29%, 64%, 31%, 31%,

1:06.9

and it goes on even had 115% in 1993.

1:10.7

And his average for that 10 years that he kept Gotham Capital open

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