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Over the last 70 years, value stocks clocked a 13.4% average annual return, vs. 10.2% for growth stocks, according to Ibbotson Associates.

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Hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman said Tuesday that most of the damage from the credit crisis has already been inflicted on the stock market. Cooperman, the manager Omega Advisors Inc. who's been trading for more than 40 years, said the current financial markets are the most difficult he's ever seen. Still, he said, signs of a bottom in the equity market are beginning to form.  "The bulk of the damage is done," Cooperman said during a speech at the Value Investing Congress in New York.

Many investors think a seat in the bleachers is the only way to watch NASCAR racing, but a TV or radio is just fine for enjoying the popular American sport -- and possibly for boosting the stock price of race track operator International Speedway Corp. It's a classic page out of the playbook of value investors, something that comes naturally to de Vaulx and de Lardemelle, who worked for years under one of the best: Jean-Marie Eveillard.

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Hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP's outspoken manager William Ackman, who has made headlines over the past year for his short positions (namely the financial services sector), took aim at the $700 billion bailout bill and Securities and Exchange Commission's short selling ban at the 4th Annual New York Value Investing Congress on Monday.