Top 20 investment blogs according to VURU

Here are the top 20 investment blogs according to VURU:

1. Aswath Damodaran
Not only is Aswath a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at NYU, he can also wield a metaphor like no other, using unlikely scenarios to teach investing lessons. Out of all the investment blogs, his is especially worth reading for its detailed analysis of diversification, books he’s read, valuation, assessing management, break up situations, investment ideas and more.

2. Greg Speicher
Greg is a businessman at heart and it shows with his practical approach to investing. He’s laser-focused on beating the market, because if he can’t (as he says) he might as well buy an index. The same goes for you. That’s why he culls the best ideas from the world’s greatest investors to help you beat the market and also provides an extremely useful investment framework. In particular, he’s got a great series with tips on how to beat the market that’s well worth a read.

3. Geoff Gannon
A prolific investment blogger, Geoff splits his writing between two main outlets: his blog and GuruFocus. In either place, he’s constantly taking the time to explain his thought process when analyzing a stock, really making each analysis a teaching moment. He also provides tutorials and answers reader questions on his investment blogs.

4. Adam Sues
A professional poker player turned value investor, Adam always provides an interesting take. For the most part, he discusses his investments or ideas he’s considering. Either way, he digs deep analyzing companies’ valuations, management performance, risks, catalysts and more.
If you’re looking for well thought out stock analysis, be sure to check out his blog. You can also see his investment philosophy here.

5. Jae Jun
Jae Jun is a prominent member of the value investing community online. His spreadsheets have been used by thousands to validate and invalidate investment ideas. What’s more is that not only is his product solid, but so is he. He writes a great blog that includes how-to guides for different types of valuations, analysis of a variety of stock picks and insights from the greats.

6. Richard Beddard
Richard is a UK investor and he runs a couple investment blogs. Through it, he details his purchases of what he calls the “Thrifty 30″. In it, he holds up to 30 value investments and continually writes about what went right, wrong and where he could have improved with his investment choices. Also, he’s written a strong four-part series on how to begin value investing. It’s definitely worth checking out, even if you’re a seasoned investor.

7. Jacob Wolinsky
Jacob has contributed greatly to educating and informing investors, through his site ValueWalk. Visit it to brush up on current events, learn about your favourite investors, get high quality analysis and use the variety of value investing calculators they offer.

8. Saj Karsan
Saj provides his thoughts on potential investment ideas, stocks that haven’t performed for him, books he’s reading and general tactics for approaching your investments.
Additionally, Saj founded Karsan Value Funds, where he puts his value investing knowledge to work. He also sometimes pens guest posts for investment blogs like ours. Here’s his post: “How to be a Value Investor“.

9. Sanjay Bakshi
Sanjay is a professor at MDI, Gurgaon, and runs his own boutique value investing firm in India. In his blog, he writes about interesting observations from his journey as a teacher and value investor. Definitely check it out.

10. Joe Koster
While Joe’s blog is called Value Investing World, it definitely doesn’t seem like it. He seems to focus on culling the wisdom of famous investors through interviews and excerpts from their books, and I love it. There’s nothing better than digging into the minds of some of the greats and quite frankly, learning their key principles is useful for every investor whether or not you agree with them.

11. Joe Ponzio
Unfortunately, Joe’s blog F Wall Street is no longer that active, but the content is top notch! He has excellent sections on How to Value a Business, How to Think about Stock Prices, How to Think about Investing and How to Search for Opportunities.

12. Frank Voisin
Frank constantly provides well-written book reviews and analysis on value investment opportunities.

13. Toby Carlisle
Toby unearths deeply undervalued stocks with a catalyst to help unlock the value and includes other stocks relating to deep, absolute-return, value investing.

14. John Hempton
John runs Bronte Capital, an Australian and USA licensed global fund manager. He writes his blog to explore investment ideas in the hopes of striking up strong discourse with readers.

15. Whopper Investments
Whopper is a deep value investor focused on micro-cap stocks. He also has a couple sections dedicated to helping investors beat the market and identify their own investment style.

16. Adib Motiwala
Adib is the founder and president of Motiwala Capital. Visit his blog to learn his current investing ideas, how he feels about the current economic climate and which of the greats inspire him most.

17. Above Average Odds
Above Average Odds is written by Ryan O’Connor, who is a managing partner at Whetstone Capital. The goal of the blog is to show the average investor that there’s a “better way” to protect and grow their wealth over time.

18. Jonathan Heller
Jonathan is a deep value, classic Ben Graham investor and maintains his own Cheap Stocks Net/Net Index, which has performed strongly.

19. Daniel Sparks
Daniel is passionate about bringing value investing to the masses. Check out his blog for insights on Buffett’s investing strategy and general investment philosophy.

20. George from Fat Pitch
George is a self-taught investor that details his personal finance discoveries in his blog. He also runs valueinvestingnews.com, which is full of great content.

Read more at: http://www.vuru.co/blog/2012/01/25/the-top-21-investment-blogs/#ixzz1lpNnM6dX

Louis Rhéaume
Infocom Intelligence
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