John Fattibene of Harvest Financial Planners manages Covestor’s Domestic Dividend model, which seeks to invest in high-quality, well-managed companies that pay a dividend. Fattibene recently added Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) to the model, so we asked him to share his reasons for the transaction. His response follows. *** We bought […]
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Model manager Brendan Ruchert-Dixon runs Covestor’s Alpha Trapper model, which follows a long-short strategy, aiming for balanced growth in the long portion while using short positions in poorly-structured ETFs to both hedge risk and aim for extra returns. Brendan recently added Asta Funding, inc (NASDAQ: ASFI) to the model. ASFI is engaged […]
fuel prices will lead to a decrease in international trade, as companies reduce fuel use by assembling things closer to markets. This facile intuition can lead
Another great sketch from Carl Richards: From Richards’ newsletter accompanying the sketch: In my conversations about money, the most common desire people express is a simple desire for peace. We all just seem to want to get out from under the constant stress that so often comes whenever we talk or think […]
H&Q Life Sciences Investors (NYSE: HQL) is a diversified closed-end fund. The Fund’s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investment in the life sciences industry (including biotechnology, pharmaceutical, diagnostics, managed healthcare and medical equipment, hospitals, healthcare information technology and services, devices and supplies), agriculture and environmental management. George Silva of […]
Fly Leasing (NYSE: FLY) is a global lessor of modern, fuel-efficient commercial jet aircraft. The Company’s aircraft are leased under long-term to medium-term
yield territory briefly, and in the ensuing QE QE2, the Federal Reserve has done its job at keeping yields down for longer duration bonds, something that I
E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc (NYSE: DANG) is a holding company with subsidiaries operating in the business-to-consumer e-commerce space in China. The company is following in Amazon’s footsteps in that it offers more than 600,000 books for sale and has recently expanded into other media and general merchandise categories such as […]
Jeffrey Saut is a Managing Director at Raymond James & Associates. His regular market commentary and research is well-regarded and eagerly anticipated. On May 23, he released a new Investment Strategy bulletin, highlighting some of his favorite investments, including Williams Company (NYSE: WMB) and Linn Energy (NASDAQ: LINE): To begin, […]
Ambient Corp. (OTC: ABTG) offers an Internet Protocol (IP) smart grid communications platform to electric utilities. So far, they have exactly one customer:
Author: Robert Freedland Covestor models: Buy and Hold Value, Healthcare Disclosure: Long ITW, DHR Last month, on April 26, 2011, I purchased shares of Illinois Tool Works (NYSE: ITW). I still like this stock and wanted to share with you my thinking on this one. The economic recovery has been anemic […]
Covestor model manager Michael Arold attempts to exploit market inefficiencies using a momentum-based trading strategy. He has a strong engineering background and currently lives in Germany. He manages Covestor’s Technical Swing model, which follows this strategy: Using multiple technical indicators, Arold surveys movements in the market at the sector and […]