Outstanding Investor Digest Back Issues
The motherlode: 43 back issues
Some Holiday Reading Material
Thanks to the generosity of my friend, Helen, we now have access to 43 back issues of Outstanding Investor Digest!
I spent a lot of time trying to find out more about Henry Emerson, the original investment newsletter publisher, before putting these in the public domain. I know lots of issues are already out there, but I wanted to be respectful of his work.
Someone on Corner of Berkshire and Fairfax said he had died, so I went looking for a surviving publisher but found none. After some consideration, I concluded that I should go ahead and put them out there.
OID was the go-to place for value investing news and transcribed speeches long before YouTube — or even the mainstream internet for that matter. Here’s what the Wall Street Journal wrote about him in 2003:
The issues are hosted on my book’s companion website, The Oracles Classroom, a site I put together to house lots of BRK and related research material. The site is free as my way of giving back to the value investing community. Enjoy!
Going, going…
I still have two spots available for my private value investing coaching program beginning in January.
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Stay rational! —Adam
So sad that Henry passed away.
Thanks for sharing OID's editions!
I used to subscribe to OID and agree it was great and chock full of thought provoking ideas and deep dives into stock recommendations. Emerson also interjected the interviews with some humor as well. Each issue was 60 or more pages on average. They were published irregularly. Sometimes there were double issues. He also has another publication that tracked what value investors were buying before the Internet made it easier to discern this information. There was some talk of OID returning years ago. I recall a website being developed but nothing ever became of it. Henry Emerson seems to have become the J.D. Salinger of investment newsletters.