Jacob Wolinsky is the founder of ValueWalk.com, a popular value investing and hedge fund focused investment website. Prior to ValueWalk, Jacob was VP of Business Development at SumZero. Prior to SumZero, Jacob worked as an equity analyst first at a micro-cap focused private equity firm, followed by a stint at a smid cap focused research shop. Jacob lives with his wife and three kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)valuewalk.com
FD: I do not purchase any equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I have a few existing holdings from years ago, but mostly mutual funds and some ETFs. I also own 2.5 grams of Gold
Leon Cooperman’s Omega Advisors has released its latest 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, showing a huge increase to its holdings of Ocwen Financial Corp (NYSE:OCN) and... Read More
HSBC Holdings plc (ADR) (NYSE:HBC) (LON:HSBA) was hit with a record $2.46 billion (1.52 billion pounds) final judgment in a U.S. securities class action lawsuit.
The judgment, considered the largest in... Read More
Wednesday 16th, Jan, is a big day for earnings. Some of the largest financial institutions in the United States, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE:GS) will release their fourth... Read More
H/T Mebane Faber
Capital Markets Outlook
Investors are faced with four primary issues in the near-term: 1) historically low bond yields, 2) the potential for a transition into a rising rate... Read More
The Single Greatest Predictor of Future Stock Market Returns by Philosophical Economics (some excerpts)
Consider the following chart, which shows the average investor portfolio allocation to equities from January 1952 to... Read More
Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT), the world’s largest toy maker by sales, has announced today a definitive agreement to buy Canada’s Mega Brands Inc. (TSE:MB) for about $460 million.
The deal envisages Mega... Read More
Joy Global Inc. (NYSE:JOY) like the rest of the mining equipment sector, has fallen out of favor with investors and the market during the past few months. However, I... Read More
Behavioral Economics - Pro-Government Bias by Bryan Caplan, Foundation For Economic Education
95% of BE Policy Proposals Forget That Government Is Run by Humans
Behavioral economists often use their findings to... Read More
Speaking at Russell Napier’s Library of Mistakes in Edinburgh earlier this month, Jim Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer asked what financial mistakes we’re making today that future generations... Read More
