The Stock Idea Farm

If my friend Wes keeps it up he will soon be publishing more than Harry Kat (whose titles, including some Spice Girls themed, are the academic versions of Altucher’s blog posts).  He just put out another paper on whether buy side ideas from SumZero have any value ( Do Buy-Recommendations Have Investment Value?).  This follows up an earlier paper on the value of picks (Do Fund Managers Identify and Share Profitable Ideas?) from Greenblatt’s Value Investing Club site.  Short answer is they both do.

Some good resources places to look to expand your stock screening ideas and building out your stock idea farm.

Conferences

AFG Research (Summer)

Ira Sohn (Summer)

Value Investing Congress (Spring Omaha/LA, Fall NYC)

Blogs and Newsletters:

Hedge Fund Letters

Market Folly

AlphaClone

James Altucher

CXO Advisory

Dealbreaker

Zero Hedge

ValueInvestor and SuperInvestor Insight

Books and Further Readings

• The Essays of Warren Buffett by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham
• Fortune’s Formula by William Poundstone
• The Myth of the Rational Market – Justin Fox
• All About Hedge Funds by Robert Jaeger
• Absolute Returns by Alexander Ineichen
• Handbook of Alternative Investments by Mark Anson
• Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton
• 20/20 Vision by Harry Liem
• The New Investment Superstars by Lois Peltz
• Market Wizards, The New Market Wizards by Jack Schwager
• Inside the House of Money by Stephen Drobny
• “Hedge Funds Levering Betas” – Bridgewater
• “Factor Modelling of Hedge Funds” – Partners Group
• Hedge Funds: Risk and Return – Malkiel and Saha
• “Alternative Routes to Hedge Fund Replication” – Harry Kat
• “The Hedge Fund Elite” – New Yorker
• “100 Hedge Funds to Watch” – Financial Times
• “The Advantage of Persistence – How the Best Private Equity Firms Beat the Fade”
• Top 50 Private Equity firms.
• Alpha Hedge Fund Hall of Fame
• Alpha’s top 100 hedge funds.
• “Sharpe Ratios of Top Managers” – Ziemba
• “Negative Compounding” – Gogerty
• “How Smart are the Smart Guys? A Unique View from Hedge Fund Stock Holdings” – John Griffin
• “Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance and Firm Performance” – Brav et al

Reading Lists

• Seth Klarman’s Recommendations
• Warren Buffett’s Suggestions
• David Einhorn’s Picks
• Dan Loeb’s Recommendations
•  Blue Ridge Capital’s Picks