Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age
Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age book cover

Where the Money Is: Value Investing in the Digital Age

Hardcover – May 24, 2022

Price
$20.99
Format
Hardcover
Pages
272
Publisher
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1982185145
Dimensions
6 x 1 x 9 inches
Weight
15.7 ounces

Description

“One of the best books I have read on investing in years.xa0Buying and reading this book will be one of the best investments you will ever make.” —Bill Ackman, founder and CEO,xa0Pershing Square Capital Management “Seessel makes Graham and Dodd proud. He acknowledges value investing’s evolution to a purer form: focusing on mispriced businesses with high-quality, growing cash flows.” — Lisa Shalett,xa0Chief Investment Officer, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management “Seessel puts his finger on a central tension in today’s economy and stock market: the rapid rise of software-driven businesses and the challenge/opportunity they present to many established industries. Just as importantly, he points the way toward how investors can prosper from the transition.” —Tim Stone, former chief financial officer of Amazon Web Services and Ford Motor Company “ Where the Money Is should be required reading for anyone investing in the stock market, or wanting to. It honors and updates the intellectual and practical legacy of Ben Graham and Warren Buffett to account for the dramatic economic changes that continue to unfold in the 21st century.” —Joel Greenblatt, founder and managing principal of Gotham Asset Management and author of You Can Be a Stock Market Genius and The Little Book That Beats the Market “A helpful take on playing the stock market . . . Would-be investors struggling to understand a financial landscape in which FAANG has left GE in the dust will want to check this out.” — Publishers Weekly Adam Seessel graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and began his professional career as a newspaper reporter in North Carolina. Seessel won the George Polk Award for environmental reporting in 1990 and in 1995, Seessel took his research skills to Wall Street. He worked for Sanford C. Bernstein, Baron Capital, and Davis Selected Advisers before starting his own firm, Gravity Capital Management, which manages money for high-net worth individuals and institutions. Since beginning a record of stock-market performance while at Davis Funds in mid-2000, Seessel has beaten the S&P 500 index after fees. In addition to running Gravity, Seessel is a regular contributor for both Barron’s and Fortune magazines. Married and with one grown son who works as a software engineer, Seessel and his wife, an artist, live in Manhattan.

Features & Highlights

  • “One of the best books I have read on investing in years. ” —Bill Ackman, founder and CEO, Pershing Square Capital Management
  • From a successful investor and a contributor to
  • Barron’s
  • and
  • Fortune
  • comes a once-in-a-lifetime book that gives modern investors what they need most: a fresh guide to making money in a stock market now dominated by tech stocks.
  • Technological change is reshaping the economy in a way not witnessed since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. A little more than ten years ago, only two of the ten most valuable publicly traded companies in the world were digital enterprises—today, they comprise eight of the top ten. Investors around the world are struggling to understand the Digital Age and how they can use the stock market to profit from it. Author Adam Seessel understands. Several years ago, he watched his old-school portfolio built using traditional value investing principles decline while the market, driven by “expensive” tech stocks, advanced. Determined to reverse course, he set off in search of a new investment paradigm, one that remained true to the discipline that Ben Graham gave us a century ago while reflecting the new realities of the Digital Age. In this “helpful take on playing the stock market” (
  • Publishers Weekly
  • ), Seessel introduces a refreshed value-based framework that any investor, professional or amateur, can use to beat the modern market. Like all sectors, the tech sector follows certain rules. We can study these rules, understand them, and invest accordingly. The world is changing, and we can profit from it. Approaching tech this way, the economy’s current changes and the rapid rise of tech stocks are not reasons to be frightened or disoriented—they’re reasons to be excited. Infused with the same kind of optimism and common sense that inspired Benjamin Graham’s
  • The Intelligent Investor
  • and Peter Lynch’s
  • One Up on Wall Street
  • ,
  • Where the Money Is
  • ushers in a new era of modern value investing.

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Timely, Informed by Experience, Must Read!!

Adam Seessel's new book connects concepts that, until now, at least for me, have represented differing ends of the investing continum. As a former hedge fund portfolio manager and a lifelong avid follower of Ben Graham and Warren Buffet's value based philosophies, and a hardwiring as a contrairian, I have for too long focused on identifying "cigar butts" that others have inappropriately avoided. While successful, this has proven harder and harder over the years and has also meant that I have missed opportunities that should have been complimentary to my portfolio because they looked "expensive." Having internalized Seessel's well articulated framework to appropriately value these companies, it is clear that the lens they were being viewed through proven outdated and overly myopic. My library houses bookshelf upon bookshelf of investing books. No one else has connected the concepts in such an elegant manner. Empowered with the new tools and perspectives gleaned from Seessel's missive, my portfolio has already benefitted. I can stay true to my value based methodology while also capturing the tremendous potential upside offered by new economy companies that have moats and business models that stand to compound returns far into the future. Thank you, Adam, for sharing your trade secrets. I highly recommend this book to all encountering the same challenges reconciling the old and the new, value and growth. Enjoy!!
7 people found this helpful
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A useful addition to the value investing canon

Old-school Graham & Dodd value investors have always focused on tangible assets. In this clearly written book, Seessel makes a good argument for focusing on great businesses--despite their lack of tangible assets. The book is useful and instructive, and I expect to put some of the ideas into action. Worth reading.
5 people found this helpful
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Informative But Not Convincing

I am formerly an old school value investor that’s converted to the John Bogle camp of index funds. Specifically S&P 500 funds because it’s difficult to beat the market. That said, I still invest 10% of my portfolio in individual stocks and thought this book would give me a new approach to the old value investor tradition. It really didn’t because the subtitle should have been “Just invest in the blue chip technology stocks or what we now call FAANG stocks”. I tried to like the book because it is very well written and it gives you a historical perspective on value investing but still came up short the second half of the book.
4 people found this helpful
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Stop and Buy!

I picked this book up from Adam after hearing him speak at an event at the Markel Annual Meeting in Richmond. I read it cover to cover in less than 2 days and I'm not one to finish a book if it doesn't capture my attention. Adam couldn't have time the release of this book any better given the environment we find ourselves currently.
4 people found this helpful
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Great book

Easy to read more relevant info
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Great book worth every dollar

The information in this book is worth every dollar thanks