The Value Perspective: Five Game of Thrones quotes for value investors

'The storms come and go ...'

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To mark the eighth and final series of Game of Thrones, which has blazed onto UK screens this week, Andy Evans picks out five quotes that help to explain how value investors think. Warning: There may be spoilers ahead …

1. "A Lannister always pays his debts." While this promise can have much darker undertones - especially when wielded by Lannister patriarch Tywin - here on The Value Perspective, we are merely looking for the businesses we invest in to live up to the more literally meaning. Analysing the ability of a company to repay whatever level of debt it chooses to take on is an integral part of a value strategy as, in tough times, debt can prove a fatal chink in any business's armour. Like any Game of Thrones character, markets enjoy good times and suffer bad times and, because of this cyclica...

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