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Balance Sheet Detectives - How We Analyze Insurance Companies

For balance sheet-oriented investors with expertise in the insurance industry, opportunities for alpha creation abound.

At Prospector, our three portfolio managers (as well as one analyst) each have over 20 years’ experience analyzing and working at insurance companies. This experience includes...

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Why Balance Sheets Over Income Statements

“The balance sheet is more difficult for management to manipulate and may offer the best opportunity to uncover financial improvement or decay.”

At Prospector, one of our main priorities when we are looking at a company is to assess our downside risk. We believe the best way to do this is by...

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Why Focus on Downside Risk?

Successful investing doesn’t have to mimic rocket science. Warren Buffet breaks it down well in his first two rules of investing:

Rule #1 – Don’t lose money; Rule #2- Don’t forget Rule #1!

We adhere to this principle, and our entire investment process revolves around the idea of limiting downside...

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Welcome to the Prospector Partners Blog

"Now is always the most difficult time to invest."

Lofty equity valuations, tight credit spreads, geopolitical risk and rising interest rates… investors these days have a lot to worry about. That’s why we believe a value approach with a sharp focus on maximizing risk adjusted returns makes as much...

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