When it comes to investing, being a small fish in a big pond isn’t all that bad. Consider the following:
- All institutional investors need to file a so-called Form 13F. They basically have to tell the Securities and Exchange Commission what they are investing in. Better yet, all this information is made public.
- What makes an institutional investor institutional, is that fact that they have clients. An institutional investor manages and invests money on behalf of their clients. And how do they get money from others to manage? Just like any other regular company…by selling. They literally tell how they invest and how they plan to invest.
- Some investors, like Carl Ichan, Bill Ackman and Dan Loeb are activist investors. How do they get active? By publishing to the public detailed reports on what they think the value is of the companies that they turn active on and how they think the company needs to do in order to achieve those valuations.
All of this information is readily available for you as an investor. Big investors with small armies of stock researchers and equity analysts are publishing research in droves and filing disclosures on their positions every day.
All of this information is available to you for free.
How to Value Stuff 