Ethan Berg worked for Michael Porter. This is how he analyzes Economic Moats with the Five Forces.6/16/2015
Ethan Berg is a management consultant turned investment partnership manager. He worked for six years at Michael Porter's Monitor Group. Of course, Porter is best known for his Five Forces analysis. As a management consultant Berg brings a unique perspective, a certainly a different methodology to value investing.
If you've ever worked with a management consultant, you know they have buzzwords and terminology that can be foreign to an investment manager. This interview is no different. "Assets and Activities", and "Activity Webs" are discussed at length. However, don't be deterred by this seeming foreign language, these are simply tools to gain a deeper understanding of Economic Moats. Listen below, and check out my notes further down the page.
This interview comes to us from the must-listen Value Investing Podcast by John Mihaljevic, CFA, author of The Manual of Ideas. More about Berg from The Manual of Ideas:
Ethan Berg is the founder and chief investment officer of G4 Partnership, an investment partnership dedicated to the implementation of the investment discipline of Ben Graham, Warren Buffett and Seth Klarman. Prior to founding G4 Partnership in 2000, Ethan was a management consultant at Monitor Group for six years, including two years of working directly for Michael Porter.
My Notes:
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