Time for a value comeback?

July 26, 2023

An insightful piece from James Gruber at Morningstar speaking with our Co-CIO Hugh Selby-Smith on what has happened to value investing and how Talaria has been able to deliver where others may not have.

“The question I put to Selby-Smith is how Talaria has managed to sidestep the carnage of other value investment funds. And he talked extensively about process and discipline. For 17 years, Talaria has largely adopted the same process. For them, it’s all about finding stocks that generate substantial free cashflow, have rock-solid balance sheets, and can be purchased at discounts to fair value.

Much of Talaria’s investment process is about eliminating behavioural biases in generating stock ideas and even for stocks that are currently in the portfolio. The firm conducts ‘anti-mortems’ that involve taking the opposite side of a stock idea to make sure the team view it through an objective lens.’

Read the full article here

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