This chapter explores the fundamentals of value investing, focusing on identifying undervalued companies, and discusses its current effectiveness in contrast to the overall expensive equity markets. The portfolio manager explains their contrarian approach and their three-to-five-year investment horizon.
Focuses on buying companies at a substantial discount to their intrinsic value.
Contrarian approach, exploiting market pessimism.
Three-to-five-year investment horizon.
Many cheap companies are ignored in expensive markets.
Barron's Senior Managing Editor Lauren R. Rublin and Deputy Editor Ben Levisohn talk with Matthew Fine, portfolio manager at Third Avenue Management, about value investing, the outlook for financial markets, industry sectors, and individual stocks.