This is the latest commentary from Jeremy Grantham of GMO. This letter I found to be extremely interesting. Below is an excerpt from the letter, followed by the full document in scribd.
The Bottom Line
Lighten up on risk-taking now and don't wait for October 1 as previously recommended. But, as always, if you listen to my advice, be prepared to be early! A word on being too early in investing: if you are a value manager, you buy cheap assets. If you are very “experienced,” a euphemism for having suffered many setbacks, you try hard to reserve your big bets for when assets are very cheap. But even then, unless you are incredibly lucky, you will run into extraordinarily cheap, even bizarrely cheap, assets from time to time, and when that happens you will have owned them for quite a while already and will be dripping in red ink. If the market were feeling kind, it would become obviously mis-valued in some area and then, after you had taken a moderate position, it would move back to normal. That would be very pleasant and easy to manage. Bu t my career, like most of yours, has been ï¬lled with an unusual number of real outliers. That certainly makes for excitement, but it also delivers real pain for even a disciplined value manager. Following is a snapshot of some of those outliers.
Below is the full document in scribd:
GMO Quarterly Letter
The Bottom Line
Lighten up on risk-taking now and don't wait for October 1 as previously recommended. But, as always, if you listen to my advice, be prepared to be early! A word on being too early in investing: if you are a value manager, you buy cheap assets. If you are very “experienced,” a euphemism for having suffered many setbacks, you try hard to reserve your big bets for when assets are very cheap. But even then, unless you are incredibly lucky, you will run into extraordinarily cheap, even bizarrely cheap, assets from time to time, and when that happens you will have owned them for quite a while already and will be dripping in red ink. If the market were feeling kind, it would become obviously mis-valued in some area and then, after you had taken a moderate position, it would move back to normal. That would be very pleasant and easy to manage. Bu t my career, like most of yours, has been ï¬lled with an unusual number of real outliers. That certainly makes for excitement, but it also delivers real pain for even a disciplined value manager. Following is a snapshot of some of those outliers.
Below is the full document in scribd:
GMO Quarterly Letter
