Another great sketch from Carl Richards: From Richards’ newsletter accompanying the sketch: We love control. You name it, we’d probably prefer to control it. But from the weather to our kids, there are limits to what we can control, and in no place is this more clear than our finances… […]
Jose Betancourt is one of Covestor’s model managers. He works as a Portfolio Manager for Betan Group, a holding company, where his role is to make decisions on where to invest the company’s capital through a fundamental analysis of the market. He also works in the capacity of Director for an […]
Verizon Wireless (VZ) has recently been in the news following ATT's (T) acquisition of T-Mobile. According to David Green of the Hotchkis and Wiley Value
Minnesota based Covestor manager Leonard Fox worked for 25 years at AT&T. He retired from the company in 2003 to join Scarecrow Trading, which provides absolute return market index signals for individual account management, investment advisors, and investment clubs. In doing so, Scarecrow Trading has developed various signals that are […]
Capital Ideas, Inc. is a Dallas, Texas-based RIA established in 1984. CJ Brott (pictured) and Karen Burns are the two founding principals and have access to many industry contacts, which they draw upon when making investment decisions. Capital Ideas adopts an approach to stock selection that is primarily “bottom up” […]
Author: Jack Brown (Laureola Asset Management) Model: Dividend Payers Disclosure: None Many stock market participants have been scratching their heads about the recent strong performance of what they perceive to be low quality stocks, and quite often cite the strong performance of small cap stocks as a case in point. […]
From CNBC this morning, here’s Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK.A) departing executive David Sokol. Money quote: “Knowing today what I know, what I would do differently is I just would never have mentioned it to Warren, and just made my own investment and left it alone.” Prediction: We haven’t heard the […]
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas upgraded Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA) this morning in a big way – with a $70 price target, and a bull case scenario that the stock goes to $135/share, which is more than 400% up from here. It’s a 50 page research note, where Jonas says […]
Fertilizer provider Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) reported earnings last night. Strong results, on the back of a rise in phosphate and potash fertilizer prices, which were in turn driven by a rise in food demand. From Reuters: The company’s revenue jumped 30 percent [year over year] to $2.21 billion, although […]
Covestor manager Mark Holder has over 15 years of investment experience and is a CPA. He believes that the best market opportunities arise from underfollowed or underappreciated ideas. Holder manages Covestor’s Net Payout Yields model, which Invests in stocks with high Net Payout Yields, which is the combination of dividends and stock […]
Global Equity Analytics and Research Services LLC (GEARS) was founded by Robert Gay as a proprietary learning-based electronic documentation interpretation software company. Prior to founding GEARS, Robert was Vice President and Director of Quantitative Research at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette in New York. Robert was selected to Institutional Investor Magazine’s All-American Research […]
Covestor model manager Raymond Urci brings more than 20 years of investing experience to New York based QSP Group LLC. He manages Covestor’s QuantStockPicks model. Here’s the strategy: QuantStockPicks provides a systematic, quantitative swing trading strategy to actively trade equities in both volatile and static markets. QuantStockPicks is a very concentrated […]