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.
Learn from the best finance minds in the world
Jim Chanos is one of the most legendary investors of all-time. Best known for betting against Enron in 2001, he has also shorted the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters, including Baldwin-United, Commodore International, Coleco, Integrated Resources, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco, and Tyco International.
Peter Brandt is the CEO of Factor LLC, a global trading firm he founded in 1980 that trades proprietary capital, forex, futures, fixed income and equity markets. He has been a futures/FX career trader since 1975 and publishes the Factor Report.
Martin Armstrong’s work has become world renown. His model for technical analysis has successfully pinpointed major events and has provided one of the most consistent guides for understanding the turning points in the global economy and the business cycle.
Bill Browder is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, the investment advisor to the Hermitage Fund, which was once the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. Browder’s primary investment strategy was shareholder rights activism.