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Stocks 507: Great Investors: Others in the Hall of Fame

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1.
Whom did Bill Ruane study under?
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Ben Graham. Ruane studied under Graham.
2.
Charlie Munger advised investors to learn many different facets of a business they might want to invest in.
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True. This helps them to better understand the economics of a certain business, which in turn can help them avoid shortsightedness.
3.
To estimate a company's intrinsic value, Bill Nygren and his colleagues use _______.
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Discounted cash-flow analysis. Nygren uses this and other methods.
4.
As an investor, Bill Miller mixed _______.
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Growth stocks with value stocks. In fact, he was often called a growth investor in a value investor's clothing.
5.
Ralph Wanger is known for investing according to _______.
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Themes. For example, if money is accumulating in one part of the world, he would look into businesses that serve that part of the world.
6.
A good description of the stocks that Marty Whitman liked to buy would be "distressed and beaten up."
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True. He looked for stocks that had suffered greatly and then bought them cheaply.