Whitney Tilson

Whitney Tilson is the co-founder and chairman of the Value Investing Congress. Whitney had a conversation with Benzinga's Alex Schiff on the Value Investing Congress, value investing, education reform, and the future of the United States. Below you will find a transcript of the interview. This is...

Whitney Tilson of T2 Partners LLC recently spoke with Benzinga, and discussed some stock ideas. He first mentions Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A), which he believes is only 17% undervalued. Berkshire Hathaway is the safest stock in his portfolio, as it's run by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger,...

Whitney Tilson did not come from the traditional route to Wall Street, where he is the founder of T2 Partners. He started off first at Harvard, like so many other Wall Streeters did, but studied government instead of finance or economics. Tilson later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School,...

Hello and welcome to Zing Talk, where Benzinga brings you the biggest names and brightest minds from Silicon Valley to New York City. Direct Download Subscribe in iTunes Today our guest is Whitney Tilson, the co-founder and Chairman of the Value Investing Congress, CNBC contributor and a...

The 2010 Value Investing Congress (VIC) is being held at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, next week, and I recently had a chance to speak with co-founders Whitney Tilson and John L. Schwartz M.D., about the conference. The VIC started as a result of Schwartz investing with Tilson at T2...

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Noted value investor and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is going to speak at the 6th Annual New York Value Investing Congress. The conference takes place October 12 & 13, 2010 in New York City. Bill Ackman is famous for his investments in companies such as Target (NYSE: TGT) and General...

On CNBC's Fast Money, Whitney Tilson said that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is crazy cheap. He explained that he is bullish on the stock because of the earnings results that MSFT reported two weeks ago. Revenues were up 22% year over year, and the company reported 50% higher EPS compared with the same...

Whitney Tilson, of T2 Partners, said on CNBC's Fast Money that he has a short position in Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS). He explained that this trade was very profitable, because the stock price followed the collapse in company's profits. He added to this position after the recent pop up,...

Whitney Tilson said on CNBC's Fast Money that the most important thing to do, if you are trying to find the bottom in BP plc (ADR) (NYSE: BP), is to size your trade properly. In his case this trade makes 5% of his portfolio. There is a small chance that liability might come out on the high end of...

Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson said that he is long BP (NYSE: BP) shares, saying that the stock is "just too cheap" at this point. He said that this is not a short term position for his firm, T2 Partners, and he fully expects for the BP headlines to be terrible for some time to come. He said...

Whitney Tilson, founder of T2 partners, today on a Yahoo! Finance web cast commented on the housing market. Mr. Tilson stated, although the housing market has ticked up in recent months, it has not hit bottom yet. Mr. Tilson was surprised by the resurgence in housing activity and a 4% increase in...