5 Great Investors Who Aren't Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is regarded by most as being one of the
greatest investors of our time. His buy-and-hold style has allowed him
to purchase hundreds of companies that he felt were fundamentally
undervalued. Buffett’s ability to identify great companies at the right
time has helped him to become one of the richest individuals in the
world, with a net worth of $72.9 billion.
Even though Buffett has beaten the S&P 500 nearly 50 years during his career, there are some critics that raise the question as to whether or not he has lost his mojo. Since the recession in 2009, Buffett has gone through several years where he failed to outperform the S&P 500.
Here are five other investors, not named Warren Buffett, that are also considered to be the best of the best in the industry. (For more, see: The Greatest Investors.)
Bogle has an extremely simple investment style. He believes in putting money into low-cost index funds that have low commissions and very little turnover of assets. That alone is a big reason why so many people trust him and his company with their money.
In 1951, Buffett took a class at Columbia University that was taught by Graham. He said there were three important things that Graham taught him:
Lynch is known to be able to adapt his investment style to whatever was working during certain market conditions, so it makes sense that people started calling him the “chameleon.” Even though he might have lived by an ever-changing style, he always applied a set of eight different principles to the companies in which he invested.
Even though Buffett has beaten the S&P 500 nearly 50 years during his career, there are some critics that raise the question as to whether or not he has lost his mojo. Since the recession in 2009, Buffett has gone through several years where he failed to outperform the S&P 500.
Here are five other investors, not named Warren Buffett, that are also considered to be the best of the best in the industry. (For more, see: The Greatest Investors.)
George Soros
Hedge fund manager George Soros is a completely different kind of investor compared to Warren Buffett. Soros doesn’t have a defined investing strategy; instead, he makes investments that come from gut decisions. He is most well known for his $10 billion bet against the British Pound in 1998. That bold move made Soros over $1 billion and forced the Bank of England to purchase 1 billion British pounds and raise interest rates by two percent.Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn is one of the greatest investor of the past 25 years; however, at times his performance can be overshadowed by his corporate antics. Icahn, also known as a “Corporate Raider,” regularly gets involved with companies that he feels have lacking leadership. Love him or hate him, his involvement usually leads to a company’s turnaround and has given Icahn a 31% annual rate of return from 1968 until 2011. In comparison, Warren Buffett had an annual rate of return of just 20%.John "Jack" Bogle
Jack Bogle is the founder and retired CEO of The Vanguard Group. Bogle started Vanguard over 40 years ago, and today it is the second largest fund company – only behind BlackRock Inc. (BLK) – with over $3 trillion under management.Bogle has an extremely simple investment style. He believes in putting money into low-cost index funds that have low commissions and very little turnover of assets. That alone is a big reason why so many people trust him and his company with their money.
Benjamin Graham
Benjamin Graham is the author of one of the most popular books on investing, “The Intelligent Investor.” Graham is known as the “father of value investing,” which is probably why he became Warren Buffett’s mentor. Graham was never a huge risk taker when he made investment choices; he used solid financial analysis to pick great companies. (For more, see The Intelligent Investor: Benjamin Graham.)In 1951, Buffett took a class at Columbia University that was taught by Graham. He said there were three important things that Graham taught him:
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A stock is the right to own a little piece of a company. The value of
the stocks you own is only as valuable as the company as a whole.
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You need to use a margin of safety when investing. It’s important to
buy into a company when the market price of the stock is below the
company’s intrinsic value.
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Mr. Market is your servant, not your master. It’s important not to
get wrapped up in everything that is going on with the markets. Instead,
focus on your own research into a company.
Peter Lynch
Peter Lynch is most well known for managing the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977 to 1990. During this span, the fund returned an average of 29% per year to its shareholders. It beat the S&P 500 in 11 of those 13 years. (For more, see The Greatest Investors: Peter Lynch.)Lynch is known to be able to adapt his investment style to whatever was working during certain market conditions, so it makes sense that people started calling him the “chameleon.” Even though he might have lived by an ever-changing style, he always applied a set of eight different principles to the companies in which he invested.
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