Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan was on Bloomberg this morning talking about the U.S. Consumer and his company. He mentions that Bank of America is past the stage of capital concerns, and now the issue is earnings. There are about $2 Billion of additional mortgage related expenses per quarter that will ease over time,...Read More

On February 15th, 2012 Mohnish Pabrai of Pabrai Investment Funds spoke at The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing in Canada.  It is a long video and the formatting is not ideal, but the stories he tells are some of the stories that inspired me to start my own investment advisory firm.  He covers many...Read More

Bill Ackman appeared on CNBC today where he discussed Borders, Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), and JC Penney (JCP) among other topics.  Ackman has become one of the most influential investors in the United States through activist investing built on solid value investment principles.  I thought his comments on the housing market were particularly relevant.  It...Read More

March 7th 2012 CSX:                                      $20.25 Market Cap:                       $21.4 Billion Dividend Yield:                  2.37% P/B:                                       2.5 2011 Net Income:            $1.822 Billion 2011 Free Cash Flow:      $1,396 Billion Company Overview:  CSX is one of the largest North American railroad companies controlling 21,000 miles of track, predominantly on the eastern United States.  CSX hauls...Read More

Today Treasury announced that they will be selling $6 Billion of AIG stock, and AIG announced that they will be buying up to $3 Billion of it.  This is enormously accretive to AIG shareholders being that if AIG were to pay $29 a share from Treasury, they would be purchasing their own stock at 52%...Read More

Fortune has a great article on Eddie Lambert, who happens to be the best performing Hedge Fund thus far in 2012 after a rough 2011.  While three months performance doesn’t make him a genius, one bad year doesn’t make him incompetent either. The only way to assess a money manager is through understanding the investment...Read More

The article below does a good job of pointing out some of the supply/demand problems that Baby Boomers face in meeting their retirement goals.  It isn’t practical to invest in overly diversified mutual funds or ETF’s and expect the returns that most investors need to maintain their same living standards into retirement.  At T&T Capital...Read More

Over the weekend Third Avenue Funds released their quarterly commentary, which always includes wonderful commentaries from their fund managers let by their Chairman Martin Whitman, whose investment philosophy as articulated by his shareholder letters and books, have become a  key component to our core value investing philosophy at T&T.  Whitman is unique in that he...Read More

On December 19th I sent out an email discussing the unbelievably cheap valuations that we were seeing, which you can see from the forwarded email below.  This is just a quick update on how they are faring.  The point is not to get overly excited, just as we don’t want to get overly pessimistic when...Read More

Assured Guaranty (AGO) came out with earnings after the close today that were phenomenal.  Please keep in mind that operating earnings are far more relevant than net income due to very obscure and illogical accounting rules for the financial guaranty industry.  For the year AGO posted operating earnings of $3.26, and less importantly net income...Read More