London Business School (LBS) MBA students Q&A on May 19, 2021
This event was sponsored by the LBS Investment Management Club and the LBS Indian Students Club (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:02:47) - Changes in our Economy post-COVID (00:08:21) - Entrepreneur’s Advantage (00:15:11) - Advise to New Investors (00:19:37) - Inner Scorecard (00:24:09) - Evaluating Management (00:30:42) - Investment in Graftech (00:38:56) - Portfolio Construction (00:43:46) - Mumbai Real Estate (00:49:27) - Impact of Exchange Rate on Investments (00:52:51) - Learnings from Nick Sleep
23 Jan 20231h 1min
Mohnish Pabrai’s Q&A session with students at the University of Georgia
University of Georgia Host: Charlie Warren Oberman November 18, 2021 (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:02:06) - Buffett: when he has his first stock tip, call me collect (00:03:47) - Relationship with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger (00:12:41) - Circle of competence (00:15:16) - Sources for Investment Ideas (00:17:08) - Handling Underperformance (00:18:49) - Leverage in Businesses (00:23:05) - Micro vs. Macro (00:24:21) - Avoiding Confirmation Bias (00:25:51) - Identifying Moats (00:29:00) - Evaluating Management (00:30:16) - Investing as a Profession (00:32:15) - Entrepreneur’s Advantage (00:33:49) - Zero Fee Structure (00:35:42) - Pre-investment checklist (00:39:12) - Lessons from Failures (00:44:14) - Calculating Intrinsic Value (00:48:03) - Shameless Cloning (00:49:42) - Long-term compounders
23 Jan 20231h 3min
Mohnish Pabrai Q&A at Harvard Business School Investment Conference - April 4, 2022
Mohnish Pabrai speaks at the HBS Investment Conference on Sunday, April 3, 2022. It’s an hour-long fireside chat moderated by an HBS professor. The Investment Conference is one of the biggest conferences arranged by HBS students each year. It is attended by 400+ students across MBA programs who have a background or interest in the investment management industry. (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:04:12) - Ben Graham; Warren Buffett’s teacher (00:10:10) - All intelligent investing is Value Investing (00:13:51) - Holding above intrinsic value (00:19:43) - Micro vs. Marco in Turkish economy (00:25:29) - Macro events affecting US economy (00:34:58) - Investment checklist (00:39:46) - Investing in Seritage (00:43:00) - Shameless Cloning (00:47:55) - New Fund Managers
23 Jan 202355min
The Ten Commandments of Investment Management
Distinguished Speaker Series Applied Fundamental Analysis & Worldly Value investing Professor Arvind Navaratnam (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:02:13) - Thou shall not skim off the top (00:04:11) - Thou shall not have an investing team (00:05:20) - Thou shall accept that thou shall be wrong at least 1/3 of the time (00:07:06) - Thou shall look for hidden P/E of 1 stocks (00:13:13) - Thou shall never use Excel (00:21:21) - Thou shall always hope a rope to climb out of the deepest well (00:27:43) - Thou shall be singularly focused like Arjuna (00:31:32) - Thou shall never short (00:32:50) - Thou shall not be leveraged. Neither a lender nor a borrower be (00:36:28) - Thou shall be shameless cloner (00:37:12) - Where to look for investment ideas (00:40:51) - Temperament during financial crises (00:43:53) - Always have a rope on hand (00:49:07) - Investment in Google (00:52:12) - Judging Management Teams & Satyam Scam (00:55:28) - Sergio Marchionne (01:00:36) - Currency risk in international markets (01:07:52) - Investing in Distressed companies (01:09:33) - Competitive Moats that turn out to be an illusion (01:16:02) - Kelly formula (01:17:17) - Circle of Competence (01:19:30) - Shameless Cloning (01:20:04) - Zero Fee Structure (01:24:03) - Investing in Protected Moats (01:26:41) - When to sell an investment (01:30:39) - Personal trails that contribute to a manager’s success
20 Jan 20231h 36min
Mohnish Pabrai’s Q&A Session with Students at Indiana Univ. Kelley School of Business –April 1, 2021
Mohnish Pabrai’s Q&A Session with Students at Indiana Univ. Kelley School of Business –April 1, 2021 (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:04:31) - Investment checklist (00:08:18) - Circle of competence (00:11:08) - Shipping Industry (00:21:56) - Portfolio Management (00:23:35) - US Markets vs. Other markets (00:25:38) - Short selling (00:29:24) - Research process (00:30:42) - Holding a stock (00:33:10) - Cinches, Feet on the desk and awesome destinations (00:41:33) - Pre-investment checklist (00:43:19) - Kelly formula (00:45:04) - Scenario analysis (00:46:28) - Hurdle rate (00:47:48) - Philanthropic initiative; Dakshana Foundation (00:51:41) - When wealth is lost (00:54:14) - Best trait of an investor; Patience (00:56:12) - Lunch with Warren Buffett (00:58:43) - Starting of Pabrai Funds (01:01:49) - Investment Strategy (01:02:35) - Learning from mistakes (01:04:17) - Career Advice
12 Jan 20231h 6min
Mohnish Pabrai’s Q&A Session with MBA Students at Columbia Business School – March 18, 2021
Professor Anuroop Duggal’s Value Investing Class Columbia Business School Columbia University (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:03:46) - Laws of investing (00:06:24) - Following Warren Buffett (00:07:39) - Finding long term compounders (00:09:05) - Early-stage businesses (00:13:54) - 10 bagger business ideas (00:17:30) - Copart: From Junk to Gold (00:28:04) - Uber Cannibals (00:33:13) - Investing is a game of probability (00:36:43) - Ollies’ business model (00:40:28) - Relationship with other investors (00:47:38) - Marginal safety (00:51:42) - My 401k plan (00:54:35) - Businesses are fragile (00:57:08) - Dakshana Foundation
11 Jan 20231h 7min
Mohnish Pabrai Lecture at Harvard University - April 7, 2020
Business Analysis and Valuation Course Professor Andrew Sandoe, Harvard University April 7, 2020 (00:00:00) - Introduction (00:04:40) - Purchase of Stonetrust Insurance (00:8:30) - Insurance Business Model (00:11:05) - Sale of Stonetrust Insurance (00:22:47) - Valuing an Insurance company (00:25:12) - Being a harsh grader (00:30:40) - Circle of Competence (00:42:03) - Start early with investing (00:55:48) - Improving your Circle of Competence (01:02:58) - Learnings from investment mistakes (01:09:54) - Value Investment Categories (01:29:16) - Probability estimation for outcomes (01:34:28) - Philip Fisher’s Scuttlebutt method (01:37:10) - Munger’s advice on sharing Investment ideas (01:42:20) - Human response to Economy
11 Jan 20231h 45min
