Competition for portfolio management jobs and alpha is fierce

Search for value and valuation skills and a deep understanding of what creates value are essential

The seminar provides the skill set and an understanding of value necessary to beat the competition

This is done by bridging the gap between theory and practice and hands on training

The seminar explores the underlying principles of value investing and sets guidelines for its successful application

The seminar covers

The search for value process, how to find possibly underpriced securities and why such underpricing exists in the financial markets

How to determine the intrinsic value of a stock and invest in truly undervalued stocks

Alternative methods for constructing a portfolio that controls for risk without restricting investment returns

Applications - Valuing and investing in real life companies

Simple rules to identify stocks that are possibly undervalued with upside potential

To put together simple mechanical strategies to form portfolios that in the long run will outperform the market portfolio

How value is created

In depth valuation techniques to further narrow down the universe of stocks to those that are truly undervalued with larger upside potential than the stocks identified with the simpler rules mentioned above

To use the concept of “Margin of Safety” to translate market and intrinsic value estimates into actual portfolio choices and limit risk in a way that goes beyond diversification

Click here to read a research paper by Dr. George Athanassakos that details the performance of the investing decision process taught in the Value Investing Seminar.

The seminar, which spans five days (and 35 contact hours), consists of two segments

The first segment is based on lectures, where the principles underlying the theoretical aspects of value investing are taught

The second segment provides an opportunity to apply these principles by working on, discussing and demonstrating their application through a number of valuations of real life companies

Break out groups of students work on each valuation exercise during class time for about an hour and a half

The class reconvenes for another hour and a half at which time the valuation of each company is discussed and a recommendation of “Invest” or “Not Invest” is made

MBAs and EMBAs

Portfolio Managers

Finance Professionals

Finance Executives

Individual Investors

Professor Athanassakos is a Professor of Finance and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario

He has been ranked among the top 10 researchers in Canada and among the top 10 Canadian  professors

He has researched extensively the Canadian Capital Markets, Stock and Bond Market Anomalies, and Bond and Equity Valuation Issues both from a Traditional Valuation and Value Investing point of view

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He is the author of numerous academic research papers and of two books, Derivatives Fundamentals and Equity Valuation

He has offered valuation seminars to Canadian and US valuator societies  and in Australia, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Finland, Italy, Greece and the UK

He is recipient of teaching awards - his teaching ratings are among the highest given at the University, irrespective of whether the seminars taught were in Canada or abroad

A Globe and Mail article entitled “Face time with the stars: High-profile names help business schools attract the brightest students” indicates that Dr. George Athanassakos is a draw for students at the Richard Ivey School of Business and includes him in the club of Canadian superstar teachers.