Dr. George Athanassakos argues that AI will most likely create a more rigid class-based society, an upper class of those on top of AI knowledge and applications, and a lower class of those who are not and will be left behind in his latest article titled “Artificial Intelligence will lead to a more extreme society…
Dr. George Athanassakos provides evidence that systematically classifying all tech stocks into growth stocks due to their high P/B and that systematically classifying all low-priced stocks as value due to their obscurity characteristics bias the value vs. growth effect in his latest article titled “Dig deeper, and you’ll see that value stocks often do actually…
Dr. George Athanassakos argues that even though it was recently announced that Warren Buffett will retire as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway by the end of 2025, he had already retired from its day-to-day operations years ago and had left most investment decisions to his successor, Greg Abel, in his latest article titled “Will Buffett really…
Thomas Konstadinidis,Chief Investment Officer, Allianz European Reliance, Athens, Greece shared his investing knowledge and experience with Dr. Athanassakos’ Value Investing Class.
Dr. George Athanassakos discusses his concerns that liberal policies of redistributing incomes rather than rewarding effort, innovation and entrepreneurship have made Canada a global laggard in productivity growth and wealth creation in his latest article “We need wealth creation not Robin Hood“, published in the Financial Post, p. FP11. The article also appeared in Financial…
Dr. George Athanassakos discusses the risks of deglobalization to value investors and argues that these days with the well-known geopolitical risks and “beggar thy neighbor” policies, even if one invests bottom-up, they should ALSO worry top-down in his latest article titled “Deglobalization is investors’ next challenge“, published in the Globe and Mail (Report on Business),…
Dr. George Athanassakos discusses and examines a formula investing approach, as a short cut to value investing, that circumvents the rigorous step of valuation without high-level accounting and finance knowledge in his latest article, titled “These formulas provide a short cut approach to value investing“, publishing in the Globe and Mail (Report on Business), p.…
Dr. George Athanassakos explains why he is a firm believer in stock picking and discusses his belief that portfolio managers often perform poorly at stock-picking not because they lack the abilities but because institutional factors force them to overdiversify in his latest article, titled “Why stock picking really does work“, published in the Globe and Mail…
On January 25 2025, the Winnipeg Free Press published “Thrifting for investors: Deep value approach once helped shape industry but it’s likely unsuitable for most long-term stocks hunters today” by Joel Schlesinger. In his article, Schlesinger discusses how the investment management industry is partially founded on the ideas of Benjamin Graham. He also quotes Dr.…
In July 2024, Dr. George Athanassakos and former HBA student Bojian Wang published a case XPEL Inc.: Searching and Valuing a Growth Stock through Ivey Publishing. This case was recently entered into the EFMD 2024 Case Writing Competition in the Finance and Banking category. According to Ivey Publishing, this recognition reflects the case’s exceptional quality and thought…