Active value investing : making money in range-bound markets

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    • Katsenelson, Vitaly N.

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Active value investing : making money in range-bound markets

Vitaly N. Katsenelson

(Wiley finance series)

John Wiley & Sons, c2007

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Includes index

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A strategy to profit when markets are range bound-which is half of the time One of the most significant challenges facing today's active investor is how to make money during the times when markets are going nowhere. Bookshelves are groaning under the weight of titles written on investment strategy in bull markets, but there is little guidance on how to invest in range bound markets. In this book, author and respected investment portfolio manager Vitaliy Katsenelson makes a convincing case for range-bound market conditions and offers readers a practical strategy for proactive investing that improves profits. This guide provides investors with the know-how to modify the traditional, fundamentally driven strategies that they have become so accustomed to using in bull markets, so that they can work in range bound markets. It offers new approaches to margin of safety and presents terrific insights into buy and sell disciplines, international investing, "Quality, Valuation, and Growth" framework, and much more. Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA (Denver, CO) has been involved with the investment industry since 1994. He is a portfolio manager with Investment Management Associates where he co-manages institutional and personal assets utilizing fundamental analysis. Katsenelson is a member of the CFA Institute, has served on the board of CFA Society of Colorado, and is also on the board of Retirement Investment Institute. Vitaliy is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Colorado at Denver - Graduate School of Business. He is also a regular contributor to the Financial Times, The Motley Fool, and Minyanville.com.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii PART ONE What the Future Holds CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Range-Bound Markets Happen 3 Fasten Your Seat Belts and Lower Your Expectations 3 Let's Identify the Animal 4 Secular versus Cyclical 4 Distinction between Secular Bull, Bear, and Range-Bound Markets 6 Is 100 Years Long Enough? 7 Stocks Carried the Torch in the Long-Run Marathon 8 International Stocks Were Bright Lights, Too 10 Will Gold Shine Again? 11 Gold's Recently Emerged Competition 13 The Deception of the Long Run (Marathon) 14 Range-Bound Markets Erode Bull Market Returns 15 The Long Run for Us May Be Shorter Than We Think 17 CHAPTER 2 Emotions of Secular Bull, Bear, and Range-Bound Markets 23 Bull Market Euphoria 23 Bear Market Doldrums 25 What Does a Secular Range-Bound Market Feel Like? 29 Volatility of Bull and Range-Bound Markets 31 CHAPTER 3 Stock Market Math 37 Sources of Capital Appreciation: Earnings Growth 38 Sources of Capital Appreciation: Price to Earnings 48 Sources of Dividend Yield 57 Why Range-Bound Markets Follow Bull Markets 61 It Is Not Over Until It Is Over 62 CHAPTER 4 Bonds: A Viable Alternative? 67 Why Not Bonds? 67 Asset Allocation Role Is Diminished in Range-Bound Markets 69 PART TWO Active Value Investing ANALYTICS Introduction to Analytics: The Quality, Valuation, and Growth Framework 77 CHAPTER 5 The ''Q''-Quality 79 Competitive Advantage 79 Management 82 Predictable Earnings 89 Strong Balance Sheet 91 Significance of Free Cash Flows 95 High Return on Capital 102 Conclusion 102 CHAPTER 6 The ''G''-Growth 103 Sources of Growth: Earnings Growth and Dividends 103 Past Has Passed 111 Future Engines of Growth 112 Dividends 114 Growth Matters-A Lot! 117 CHAPTER 7 The ''V''-Valuation 119 Tevye the Milkman's Approach to Valuation 119 Review of Relative Valuation Tools 128 Absolute Valuation Tools-Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 132 Relative versus Absolute Tools 134 Absolute Models Overview 136 The False Precision of Math 137 Absolute P/E Model 139 Discount Rate Model 148 Margin of Safety Model 151 The Marriage of Absolute P/E and Margin of Safety 155 Bring Out the Toolbox 155 The P/E Compression and How to Deal with It 157 CHAPTER 8 Let's Put It All Together 165 The Added Clarity 165 One Out of Three Is Not Enough 165 Two Out of Three Is Better, But Is It Enough? 167 Conclusion 174 STRATEGY Introduction to Strategy: The Value of Process and Discipline 177 CHAPTER 9 Buy Process-Fine-Tuning 179 The Value of the Process and Discipline 179 Think Long-Term, Act Short-Term 181 Meet Your New Best Friend-Volatility 182 Time Stocks, Not the Market 183 Cash Is King 185 Be Ready to Strike When the Time Comes 186 CHAPTER 10 Buy Process-Contrarian Investing 187 Contrarian Is the Name of the Game 187 You Don't Have to Own It 189 Be a Myth Buster 190 Quantify Everything and Be a Contrarian Headline Investor 191 Time Arbitrage 192 Finding New Ideas 193 Do In-Depth Primary (Your Own) Research and Document It 200 CHAPTER 11 Buy Process-International Investing 201 The World Has Flattened: Hola, Bonjour, Guten Tag, Buon Giorno to the Rest of the World 201 Same Difference 202 Location of Corporate Headquarters Abroad May Not Constitute a Foreign Company 203 You Are Exposed to More Foreign Political Risk Than You Realize 204 What About the United States? 205 Pick Your Comfort Zone and Go from There 206 Don't Confuse a Fast-Growing Economy and a Good Investment 207 Currency Risk 207 How Much Is Too Much? 208 Conclusion 209 CHAPTER 12 Sell Process-Make Darwin Proud 211 Selling When Stock Price Has Gone Up 212 Selling When Fundamentals Have Deteriorated 215 Conclusion 221 RISK AND DIVERSIFICATION Introduction to Risk and Diversification 225 CHAPTER 13 A Different View of Risk 227 What Is Risk? 227 Properties of Randomness 228 The Crocodile Hunter, Randomness, and Investing 229 Understand the Linkage Between and Inside QVG Dimensions 234 Identify Impact of Randomness on Value Creators 235 The Cost of Being Wrong 238 Conclusion 239 CHAPTER 14 A Different View of Diversification 241 Don't Bet the Farm! 242 Too Many Eggs or Too Many Baskets 243 Mental Accounting and Diversification 244 Mental Accounting and Randomness in a Stock Portfolio 246 Randomness Could Be Your Friend 248 CHAPTER 15 Conclusion and Implication 251 I Could Be Wrong, But I Doubt It 251 Bull Markets 252 Bear and Range-Bound Markets 253 Bonds? 255 No, I Am Not Wrong 256 Appendix-Years to Bull Market 257 Acknowledgments 267 Notes 273 Index 275

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  • NCID
    BA83780862
  • ISBN
    • 9780470053157
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Hoboken, N.J.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xix, 282 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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