In a piece for the Globe and Mail, Ivey finance professor George Athanassakos lays out the three defining principles value investors adhere to and help guide them in the investing process.
"Value investors believe that when they buy a stock, they do not buy a piece of paper. They buy a piece of the company. They do not buy as traders, they buy as owners, and as a result they must know a lot about the company, in fact almost as much as the entrepreneur who runs the company."