Joel Greenblatt

Managing Principal & Co-Chief Investment Officer at Gotham Funds

Joel Greenblatt is an academic, hedge fund manager, investor, and writer. He is a value investor who runs Gotham Funds with his partner, Robert Goldstein, and is also a director at Pzena Investment Management, a high-end value firm.

Who is…

  • Greenblatt co-founded a website with John Petry called the Value Investors Club, where investors approved through an application process exchange value and special situation investment ideas. Membership is capped at 250 and considered highly prestigious.
  • He introduced an investment strategy of “magic formula investing,” which is a method for determining which stocks to buy: “cheap and good companies” with a high earnings yield and a high return on invested capital.
  • He is a longtime teacher at Columbia Business School and author of four investment books.
  • He formerly served on the Investment Boards of the University of Pennsylvania and the UJA Federation.

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