诺贝尔经济学奖得主和他的投资理念

最新的诺贝尔经济学奖得主已经出炉,他就是著名行为金融学奠基者、芝加哥大学教授—理查德·塞勒(Richard Thaler). 网上读了关于他的一些得奖新闻和背景报道,让我感兴趣的是原来这位教授除了在象牙塔里研究成果丰硕,在资本市场也是搞得风生水起.

他和他的搭档Russel Fuller创建的 “Fuller & Thaler Asset Management”的投资成绩非常亮眼.这家公司在JP Morgan管理的一只基金 Undiscovered Managers Behavioral Value Fund(UBVLX)从09年到现在管理的资产市值翻了三倍,塞勒可以说真正的做到了将知识转化成生产力.

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这个基金的详细资料和介绍可以在JP Morgan的网站找到:  点击

总结一下它的投资方向和理念如下:

  1. Targets small-cap value companies that are underappreciated due to behavioural biases. 被市场忽视低估的优质的小市值公司
  2. Looks for companies with significant insider buying or share buybacks.公司股票被内线人士和公司大量回购

其实这一套理论不光在美国适用,在新加坡本地市场也是屡试不爽的一个投资策略. 既然诺贝尔奖得主都给出了tips,我们怎么不牢记在心呢?

ROIC- A more effective parameter to measure company’s investment return

From fool.sg :

As investors, we may want to try and search for good businesses and that’s because doing so can often help lead us to good investments.

Yet, how can we quantify a good business? Is there a metric that investors can use to tell the difference between a high quality and low-quality business? I believe there is, and it is a metric known as the return on invested capital or ROIC. Here’s the math needed:

ROIC table

To understand ROIC, let’s imagine there are two coffee shops, Ali and Baba. Both shops currently have annual sales of $1 million and profit of $200,000 each. Based on the revenue and profit figures, both coffee shops look equally good.

But, Ali is located in the city centre and needed a large capital investment of $5 million ($4.5 million to acquire the property and $500,000 for working capital) to start.

Baba, on the other hand, is situated on the outskirts of town and thus required only $1 million in capital investment ($800,000 to buy the shopfront and $200,000 for working capital).

Using the above formula, the ROIC for Ali is just 4 % whereas Baba’s is 20%. We can, therefore, conclude that Baba is a better-quality business since it requires less capital to generate the same amount of profit.

So, put simply, ROIC is used to understand whether a business is good, average or bad. An average business generally has a ROIC of between 12% and 15%. Thus, a rule of thumb is that anything above 15% is considered a good business and anything lower than 12% is of low quality.

Some case studies shown below:

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