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Thoughts

Exclusive commentary and insights from Team CSC's deep fundamental research, repeatable investment process, and culture of continuous improvement.

Category: Philosophical Musings

Markets, Rationality & Decision Making

Cleaning Up – It’s Possible

Yes, that is the Principal at the far end as the moderator for an investment panel at the Markel Annual Meeting (Yes – please come

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Philosophical Musings

If you are asking:
Summer Reading

The Perfect Sound:  A Memoir in Stereo Shantaram Paradais The Power Law The Cursed Bunny Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third

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Philosophical Musings

Ask The Apes and the Harvard MBA’s

This is an old-school article about an old-school topic. The theme is fairly simple – can youthful enthusiasm for money and fame raise flags for

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ESG

Random Notes: Hydrogen

You might have heard about this “Green” thing. On an unemotional basis, estimates are thrown around regularly that “we” (whether that includes China, India, Brazil,

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Star Trek and Value

  As we all know from Star Trek, there are many parallel universes out there. While their existence cannot be proven logically—at least up to

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CSC Thoughts for LinkedIn
Ben Graham Corner: Securities Analysis

The More Things Change

A very long time ago, the author was the first outside columnist for TheStreet.com, which in its early days had a terrific set of people

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Off the Spreadsheet Reservation

As analysts, we are tasked with identifying companies that can produce favorable risk adjusted returns with a substantial margin of safety. Like any number of

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