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How to invest in the deepest value stocks, with Tobias Carlisle

The Australian Investors Podcast with Tobias Carlisle, founder of Acquirers Funds, The Acquirer's Multiple, and portfolio manager. Listen as Tobias talks to Owen Rask about deep value quant investing.
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This week, we published The Australian Investors Podcast with Tobias Carlisle.

Tobias is the Aussie founder of Acquirers Funds, the creator of The Acquirer’s Multiple, a multiple author, and portfolio manager. He’s now based out of Los Angeles, where he is responsible for managing ETF portfolios that use deep value investing strategies.

If you want to learn why deep value investing in stocks works (and how to do it yourself), ways to spot financial fraud and corporate accounting shenanigans (before they hurt your portfolio), or simply understand how factor investing works, this is the episode for you.

The Australian Investors Podcast is Australia’s premier professional and private investor-focused podcast series, delivering weekly insights from Australia’s best fund managers, analysts and investors.

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Listen to the podcast with Tobias Carlisle

What you’ll get from listening:

  • Why Tobias would want Warren Buffett on speed dial (over any other investor)
  • Tobias backstory, including growing up in outback Australia
  • How Tobias morphed a legal career into value investing
  • How to find and short companies in financial distress (including frauds)
  • Why Tobias believes stable + wide gross margins are a great predictor for the quality factor
  • The Magic Formula versus Acquirer’s Multiple
  • Why value factors outperform quality and growth
  • The importance of dissecting cash versus profit
  • Why frauds can remain profitable longer than you can stay solvent (as a short seller)
  • The #1 piece of investing advice Tobias would give himself

This is a great primer and exploration on deep value, factor investing and using quantitative methods to get better outcomes from the long or short side of your portfolio.

Owen’s resources for this episode

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