There is a great school of business in Western Ontario, Canada named Richard Ivey School of Business that teaches value investing to identify undervalued securities as coined by Benjamin Graham, the father of security analyst and Warren Buffett's teacher & mentor. The school even has a center for value investing: The Ben Graham for Value Investing. The center regularly invites prominent value investors to speak at its conferences and lectures, capturing the invaluable thoughts, ideas, and philosophies of prominent successful value investors both in the US and Canada such as:

• Mr. Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway, Omaha, Nebraska
• Mr. Charles Brandes, CFA, Brandes Investment Partners LP, San Diego, California
• Mr. Martin Whitman, CFA, Third Avenue Management LLC, New York, NY
• Mr. Irving Kahn, CFA, Kahn Brothers & Company Inc., New York, New York
• Mr. Walter J. Schloss, CFA, Walter & Edwin Schloss Associates, New York, NY
• Mr. Francis Chou, CFA, Chou Associates Management Inc., Toronto, Ontario
• Mr. Peter Cundill, FCA, CFA, The Cundill Group, Vancouver, British Columbia
• Mr. Mason Hawkins, MBA, Southeast Asset Management, Memphis, Tennessee
• Mr. Mark Holowesko, Templeton Funds (now Franklin Templeton), The Bahamas
• Mr. Avner Mandelman, BSc, MA, MBA, Giraffe Capital Corp., Toronto, ON
• Mr. Irwin A. Michael, MBA, CFA, I. A. Michael Investment Council Ltd., Toronto, ON
• Mr. Robert Tattersall, Howson Tattersall, Toronto, Ontario

Here are the links to great interviews, videos, and very informative research papers at the Ben Graham Center for Value Investing, Richard Ivey School of Business:

• Interviews
• Videos
• Research Papers

You will become better investors reading and listening to successful value investors and practitioners. There is no guarantee that anyone could become the next Warren Buffett, but a deep understanding on value investing principles and real-word practice is a significant step forward for any investors to potentially achieve superior long-term investment performance.

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“Common stocks have one important investment characteristic and one important speculative characteristic. Their investment value and average market price tend to increase irregularly but persistently over the decades, as their net worth builds up through the reinvestment of undistributed earnings. However, most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions, as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble”
~ Mr. Benjamin Graham, the father of security analyst and Warren Buffett's no. 1 mentor and teacher.

Note: CheetahCapital is founder/chief editor of UndervaluedSecurities.com and managing partner of Cheetah Capital Mgmt, a west coast-based private investment partnership that invests in undervalued securities globally.