The Manual of Ideas

This title reveals the proprietary framework used by an exclusive community of top money managers and value investors in their never-ending quest for untapped investment ideas. Considered an indispensable source of cutting-edge research and ideas among the world's top investment firms and money managers, the journal "The Manual of Ideas" boasts a subscribers list that reads like a Who's Who of high finance. Written by that publication's managing editor and inspired by its mission to serve as an "idea funnel" for the world's top money managers, this book introduces you to a proven, proprietary framework for finding, researching, analyzing, and implementing the best value investing opportunities. The next best thing to taking a peek under the hoods of some of the most prodigious brains in the business, it gives you uniquely direct access to the thought processes and investment strategies of such super value investors as Warren Buffett, Seth Klarman, Glenn Greenberg, Guy Spier and Joel Greenblatt. It is written by the team behind one of the most read and talked-about sources of research and value investing ideas. Reviews more than twenty pre-qualified investment ideas and provides an original ranking methodology to help you zero-in on the three to five most compelling investments. It delivers a finely-tuned, proprietary investment framework, previously available only to an elite group of TMI subscribers. Step-by-step, it walks you through a proven, rigorous approach to finding, researching, analyzing, and implementing worthy ideas.

John Mihaljevic, CFA, is a Managing Editor of The Manual of Ideas , the monthly idea-oriented research publication for value-oriented investors, and a Managing Director of ValueConferences, the series of fully online investment conferences for value-oriented investors. He has also served as Managing Partner of investment firm Mihaljevic Capital Management LLC since 2005. He is a member of Value Investors Club, an exclusive community of top money managers, and has won the club 's prize for best investment idea. John is a trained capital allocator, having studied under Yale University Chief Investment Officer David Swensen, and served as research assistant to Nobel Laureate James Tobin. John holds a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Yale and is a CFA charterholder. He resides in Zurich, Switzerland, with his wife, two boys, and a girl.