June 5th, 2010 by jwolinsky
I always like following funds run by some of the best money managers of our time. Third Avenue Fund is run by legendary investor Martin J. Whitman. Every quarter the fund releases its quarterly report. Third Avenue just released its 2nd quarter report for 2010. Martin Whitman shares his wisdom between pages 2-7. I can [...]
March 9th, 2010 by admin
On Friday February 26th I had the privilege of attending the Columbia Investment Management Conference. I attended the event as a seeking alpha reporter. My journey there was quite scary. I literally almost died several times on my way there. The roads were still bad from the huge snow storm that had struck New York the previous [...]
January 27th, 2010 by admin
Third Avenue Management recently launched a new mutual fund on August 31, 2009. Normally, it is difficult to get information about a new fund as soon as it opens. However, the company provided information about the fund and its objectives in its recent shareholder letter for Q4 2009, which was able to help me in [...]