Strategy Blog
Investors, traders, fund managers, and market pioneers whose methods shaped how markets are studied.
Each profile digs into how a great market thinker made decisions: what they watched, what they avoided, and which lessons still help a retail investor read businesses, prices, risk, and crowd behavior with more judgment.
Value investor · Global absolute-return value investing
Jean-Marie Eveillard built the First Eagle Global Fund around absolute-return value investing, a willingness to hold cash and gold, and a conviction that the real risk is permanent loss, not temporary embarrassment.
Mutual fund manager · Flexible intrinsic-value investing
Bill Miller made Legg Mason Value Trust a legend by treating value as the present value of future cash flows, then watched the same conviction expose investors to one of the harshest reversals in modern mutual fund history.
Investment manager · Hedged contrarian value investing
Roy Neuberger survived the 1929 crash with a short book, turned contrarian value into a money-management franchise, and left a firm whose endurance became part of his investment record.
Mutual fund manager · Small-cap growth investing
The longtime Acorn Fund manager turned small-company investing into a durable craft built on patience, financially sound businesses, long trends, and the courage to look foolish before looking right.
Trader · Short-term swing trading
Linda Bradford Raschke built a four-decade trading career by treating price action as evidence, execution as craft, and risk control as the only durable foundation for short-term speculation.
Value investor · Global deep value investing
The Canadian value investor built the Cundill Value Fund by buying what others abandoned, then proved that patience, accounting discipline, and a willingness to look abroad could turn deep value into a durable global craft.
Finance scholar · Mean-variance portfolio diversification
Harry Markowitz did not discover diversification; he gave it a calculus, a frontier, and a set of warnings that still discipline asset allocation.
Growth investor · Growth-stock momentum investing
Richard Driehaus turned an uncomfortable idea into an institution: buy companies already moving higher, demand accelerating earnings, cut deteriorating positions quickly, and accept volatility as the price of catching exceptional growth.
Quantitative trader · Systematic short-term futures trading
Before quant trading became Wall Street's default language, Monroe Trout turned short-term futures trading into a disciplined business of statistical edges, strict loss limits, and industrial execution.
Hedge fund manager · Catalyst-driven value investing
Leon Cooperman built Omega Advisors on fundamental stock picking, macro caution, and a blunt faith in capitalism, then carried the costs of concentrated judgment, regulatory controversy, and a public debate over wealth into his family office era.
Value investor · Safe-and-cheap deep value investing
Martin J. Whitman made a career out of buying strong companies and distressed securities at discounts to asset value, building Third Avenue around a doctrine that was rigorous, contrarian, and never as easy as it sounded.
Risk theorist · Barbell tail-risk investing
The former derivatives trader turned risk theorist built a career around one stubborn idea: the rare event is not an exception to market life, but one of its organizing forces.
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