Tobias Carlisle is a founder and managing partner of Carbon Beach Asset Management LLC, and serves as Chief Investment Officer. He has extensive experience in investment management, business valuation, public company corporate governance, and corporate law. Carlisle is best known as the author of the books Concentrated Investing: Strategies of the World’s Greatest Concentrated Value Investors (2016, Wiley Finance), Deep Value: Why Activists Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (2014, Wiley Finance), and Quantitative Value: A Practitioner’s Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors (2012, Wiley Finance). He operates the websites The Acquirer’s Multiple® (https://acquirersmultiple.com/) and Greenbackd.com. Prior to founding the forerunner to Carbon Beach in 2010, Tobias was an analyst at an activist hedge fund, general counsel of a company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, and a corporate advisory lawyer. As a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions he has advised on transactions across a variety of industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Australia, Singapore, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Guam. He is a graduate of the University of Queensland in Australia with degrees in Law (2001) and Business (Management) (1999).

The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market is an easy-to-read account of deep value investing. The book shows how investors Warren Buffett, Carl Icahn, David Einhorn and Dan Loeb got started and how they do it. Carlisle combines engaging stories with research and data to show how you can do it too. Written by an active value investor, The Acquirer’s Multiple provides an insider's view on deep value investing. The Acquirer’s Multiple covers:

How the billionaire contrarians invest

How Warren Buffett got started

The history of activist hedge funds

How to Beat the Little Book That Beats the Market

A simple way to value stocks: The Acquirer's Multiple

The secret to beating the market

How Carl Icahn got started

How David Einhorn and Dan Loeb got started

The 9 rules of deep value

The Acquirer’s Multiple: How the Billionaire Contrarians of Deep Value Beat the Market provides a simple summary of the way deep value investors find stocks that beat the market.