Thanks to everyone who answered our survey from last week. Basically, everyone wants 3 things:Stock ideas & analysis Investing education and information Recommended readingsQ4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc So that's what we're going to give you. (Sure, we'll sprinkle the odd tutorial or book review in, too.) To kick things off, [...]
The idea of borrowing money to invest in the stock market can be very appealing for risk-tolerant investors. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc mohamed_hassan / Pixabay ValueWalk readers can click here to instantly access an exclusive $100 discount on Sure Dividend’s premium online course Invest Like The Best, which contains [...]
Wow! That was a bounce. In the words of Mr. Castanza “I’m back…baby!“. Or if you want something a bit more modern….”Chewie…we’re home!”. Either way, investors rushed to remember what a positive month looks like after basically every asset class was down in 2018, with stocks flirting with a [...]
Global: Tough past three years for small companies in terms of sales growthLooking at all non-financial companies globally, grouped by size Sales growth in line with previous peaks, except for Small companies Small companies haven’t seen much sales growth since 2012Asia ex Japan: All companies but Small saw an upturn in [...]
Activist short-seller Muddy Waters' new short report questions the financial prospects of Inogen (INGN), a provider of portable oxygen for patients. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc "You gonna believe me, or your lyin' eyes?" - Richard Pryor Muddy Waters is short Inogen, Inc. (INGN) because we believe management has created an egregiously [...]
After a very tough 2018 for many quantitative strategies, particularly in market-neutral stock selection, 1 one hurdle many investors face is getting some basic intuition about results, and even more elementary, about what one actually owns in such a portfolio. This matters as the more intuitive something is the [...]
Sortino Ratio vs Sharpe Ratio vs Sterling Ratio vs MAR Ratio vs How Do I Calculate This Ratio...yikes. Managed futures certainly has perfected the art of having a language of it’s own. And it makes sense, there are lot of internal organizations, math equations and extra extras that help [...]
Cincinnati, Ohio-based consumer products giant Procter & Gamble (PG), needs no introduction. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc ValueWalk readers can click here to instantly access an exclusive $100 discount on Sure Dividend’s premium online course Invest Like The Best, which contains a case-study-based investigation of how 6 of the [...]
Introduction This is part 3 of a series where I have conducted a simple screening looking for value over the overall market based on industry classifications and subindustry classifications reported by FactSet Research Systems, Inc. In part 1 found here I covered the Consumer Services Sector. In part 2 found [...]
Things keep getting worse for pensions… Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc geralt / Pixabay If you’ve read Notes recently, you know the pension fund crisis is one of our major themes. Simply put, these giant pools of capital responsible for paying out retirement benefits to workers are BROKE. According to the [...]
ETFGI reports asset growth and net inflows in global ETFs ETPs industry continues to outpace global Hedge Fund industry in Q4 2018 Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc clarencealford / Pixabay LONDON — February 5, 2019 — ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, [...]
With shares 36% below last year’s highs, we believe an investment in Intelsat (NYSE: I) represents exceptional value ahead of important catalysts as the regulatory process enters its final stages. The bull thesis as laid out in our original, full-length report and subsequent Seeking Alpha article, All Systems “Go”, [...]
Tumbling equity markets across the board contributed to nearly 5% of the losses investors saw in their portfolios in 2018, and losses weren’t mitigated by fixed income investments, according to the annual Global Portfolio Barometer published today by Natixis’ Portfolio Research and Consulting Group. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops [...]
ETFGI reports assets invested in actively managed ETFs and ETPs listed globally attract inflows of US$628 million during December Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc LONDON — January 30, 2019 — ETFGI, a leading independent research and consultancy firm covering trends in the global ETF/ETP ecosystem, reported today that actively managed ETFs [...]
Every year, thousands of pages of earnings call transcripts are generated and analyzed by equity analysts for signals about how individual companies — and the market — will perform. Our 2018 Word On The Street report demonstrates how Sentieo’s Document Search and Transcript Sentiment tools make that data more accessible to researchers. Q4 hedge [...]
What I’m about to say may sound totally crazy at first. But keep reading, because I think you’ll agree that it’s dead-on accurate. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc geralt / Pixabay There’s a recession coming. No, that’s not some Chicken Little “The Sky is Falling” statement. Far from it. It’s just [...]
Over a year ago, Burgundy did a complete reassessment of our research costs based on new financial rules from Europe called MiFID II. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc geralt / Pixabay Historically, brokerage firms have incurred expenses on research activities like analyst reports and industry conferences. Rather than charging money [...]
Debt is a hot button issue, viewed as destructive to businesses by some at one end of the spectrum and an easy value creator by some at the other. The truth, as is usually the case, falls in the middle. In this post, I will look not only at [...]
This is a guest contribution by Ryan Krueger of investment advisory firm Krueger & Catalano. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of Sure Dividend. The best way to keep up with Ryan is on Twitter. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc ValueWalk readers can click here to instantly access [...]
There are over 21 months to go until the 2020 US presidential election. And every day more and more socialist candidates throw their hat in the ring. They all want to be the one to take down Donald Trump. Q4 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc FirmBee / Pixabay But how do you [...]
The global hedge fund industry ended a volatile 2018 in the red, with aggregate performance for December at -2.15% and for the year at -4.86%, according to the latest eVestment hedge fund performance data released today. December’s negative performance marked the industry’s fifth consecutive month of negative performance in [...]
Introduction This is part 2 of a series where I have conducted a simple screening looking for value over the overall market based on industry classifications and subindustry classifications reported by FactSet Research Systems, Inc. In part 1 found here, I covered the Consumer Services Sector. In this part 2, I [...]
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