Author Archives: Timeless Investor

About Timeless Investor

My name is Samual Lau. I am a long-term value investor and a zealous disciple of Ben Graham. And I am a MBA graduated in May 2010 from Carnegie Mellon University. My concentrations are Finance, Strategy and Marketing.

Morfit, who is the board member of Valeant, will serve as ValueAct’s chief investment officer

According to WSJ, Morfit, who is the board member of Valeant since 2007, will serve as ValueAct’s chief investment officer. Should Morfit help turn around this company? Very possible! 

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Mel Watt testified at a hearing on housing finance policy; Mnuchin will testify on May 18 on GSE

Mel Watt testified at a hearing on housing finance policy. He reiterated his concerns over long-term conservatorship of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and stressed that it is Congress’ job to chart a path out of it, and urged lawmakers to … Continue reading

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Takeaways from Bruce Greenwald’s interview at Barron’s

Here are a few takeaways from Bruce Greenwald’s interview at Barron’s

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Watt on GSE – can we have the conservatorship end before the end of this year?

Watt warns that “By the end of the year “neither enterprise will have the ability to weather any loss it experiences in any quarter without drawing further on taxpayer support,”” so we are going to see the end of tunnal … Continue reading

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Can he become the second Bob Benmosche for AIG?

Can he become the second Bob Benmosche for AIG? – from WSJ

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Read as much as I can like two Ts

Read as much as I can like two Ts

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Samsung has 50% upside potential – from Barrons

Samsung has 50% upside potential – from Barrons, I propably need to have a Interactive Broker account to buy this stock

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Trump matrix and stock ideas

Here is “Trump Matrix” from DashofInsight, I might can use this matrix to plan on a few ideas,

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When shorting retailers, try to avoid the activist investors’ hit list

So far, it might be a good idea to short a few retailers to hedge my portfolio, but in the meantime, I need to avoid the activist investors’ hit list

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HR 1694 passed in congress – another leg for FNMA and FNMAS

Yesterday HR1694 Act passed unanimously in congress (big surprise), it is another leg for FNMA, consider load more of FNMA/FNMAS/

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