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Michael Mauboussin Master Class — Moats, Skill, Luck, Decision Making and a Whole Lot More

2021/10/5
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Michael Mauboussin 阐述了其在《期望投资》一书中提出的核心概念:股票价格反映了市场对未来财务业绩的预期,投资者应通过战略和财务分析判断这些预期是否合理,并据此做出投资决策。他强调现金流而非会计收益是企业价值的最终驱动因素,并指出在当前市场环境下,由于无形资产的增加,传统的财务报表分析方法的有效性降低。他建议投资者关注企业的核心盈利模式,并运用概率性思维来考虑多种情景。 Mauboussin 还介绍了其在《衡量护城河》论文中提出的护城河评估框架,该框架从市场、行业动态和公司竞争优势三个方面入手,并通过分析诸如资本回报率、市场份额变化、定价能力等指标来衡量企业的竞争优势。他区分了低成本生产商和差异化企业两种竞争优势模式,并指出在评估早期阶段公司时,应将其视为期权而非传统的债券或股票。 在讨论技能与运气时,Mauboussin 提出了“技能悖论”的概念,即在技能和运气共同决定结果的活动中,随着技能的提高,运气的重要性也会增加。他认为,虽然绝对技能水平不断提高,但相对技能差距却在缩小,导致结果的随机性增加。他指出,在风险投资领域,业绩的持续性表明存在技能优势,并提出了“优先依附”理论来解释风险投资领域中业绩持续性的现象。 最后,Mauboussin 分享了一些提高决策能力的工具,包括基准率、事后分析法、红队演练和日记记录等,并强调了概率性思维和持续自我反思的重要性。 Ben Gilbert 和 David Rosenthal 作为主持人,引导 Michael Mauboussin 阐述其投资理念,并结合当前市场环境进行讨论。他们就期望投资、护城河评估、早期阶段投资、技能与运气等话题与 Mauboussin 展开了深入探讨,并就相关问题提出了自己的见解。

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Michael Mauboussin discusses expectations investing, emphasizing that stock prices reflect expectations of future financial performance. He suggests reverse-engineering prices to understand underlying assumptions and make informed decisions.
  • Stock prices reflect expectations of future financial performance.
  • Reverse-engineer prices to understand underlying assumptions.
  • Consider various scenarios and probabilities.

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We sit down with the one & only Michael Mauboussin to dive deep into his incredible body of work: untangling skill and luck, measuring moats, persistence of returns in venture capital, decision making and — particularly timely — expectations investing and how to think about valuations in the current 2021 market environment. (!!) Michael's work is maybe our most frequent carve out on Acquired, so we're pumped to finally have a chance to interview the man himself. Big thank you to Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Brent Beshore for introducing us all at Capital Camp this year! 

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