About Me

“Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.”

– Warren Buffett

In the summer of 2000 a friend of mine introduced me to investing. I was about to start my electrical engineering and computer science degree at MIT. I went to the Harvard Bookstore in Harvard Square and bought a few books on investing and the stock market and was instantly hooked. Three years later I graduated from MIT with a finance degree and was already managing a small investment fund called TwentyEight, Inc. with “several thousand dollars” of capital. Eight years and several adventures and detours later, I’m now managing the Mayar Fund. I’ve learned a lot about investing and business over the past eleven years but I think that Warren Buffet was right when he said that value investing either makes sense to a person the first time they get exposed to it or never at all. That’s what happened to me. Whether it’s food, clothing, or stocks, I’ve always loved a bargain!

This blog is about value investing and business. It’s about my work as a fund manager. Every now and then, it will be about something else that I find interesting. Charlie Munger has taught us that investors need to expose themselves to a lot of information in as many disciplines as possible. I agree with him, it makes us better investors. I hope you enjoy my thoughts and/or learn from them. Feel free to comment when you agree with me, and please do comment when you think I’m saying something stupid.

Abdulaziz A. Alnaim, CFA

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Abdulaziz is President of Mayar Capital Management and manager of Mayar Fund, which invests in global financial markets and adheres to value investing principles. Prior to founding Mayar Capital Management, Abdulaziz served as Chairman, CEO and Fund Manager at Yareem Ltd. (2003-2011), an investment company which he managed using a disciplined value investing approach. He also served as Chairman of Yareem Arabia (2006-2011), a multi-unit restaurant company based in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. Abdulaziz is a CFA charter-holder and is a member of CFA Bahrain. Abdulaziz is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Young Businessmen Council at AsharqiaChamber of Commerce in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. He holds a BS in Management Science with a concentration in Finance and a minor in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.