How bad does America’s 9.4% unemployment look on a current global scale? Bespoke Investment Group charted it out: They add: the reality is that the US ranks pretty poorly compared to the rest of the world. The Eurozone is at similar levels to the US, but when most of the […]
GOOD took recently released census data and created this map to show the link between education level and income – click through for larger version: The color combinations tell the story, as Cliff Kuang of FastCo Design explains: If a county is, say, orange… that’s a combination of yellow and […]
Piper Jaffray released a research report Friday that mentioned technology company Nanometrics (NASDAQ: NANO) may benefit from Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) increased capital spending in 2011. In 2009, INTC represented 10.4 percent of Nano’s revenue, so the impact of its increased capital spending could be substantial. As a result of this […]
This week we spoke with Paul MacNamara of Strategic Investment Partners Wealth Management about his firm and his Capital Appreciation ETF with Covestor. *See Important Disclosures Covestor LIVE: On the Strategic Investment Partners (SIPCO) website, it states that your firm uses an investment strategy for equity portfolios that is, “…based […]
*See Important Disclosures In the Deep Value model, manager Analytic Investments uses a set of valuation factors to determine what stocks to add to the model. These factors include low price to earnings ratio and high dividend yield. On their website, Analytic Investment talks about their method of portfolio management: […]
Merck (NYSE: MRK) stopped its clinical study for Vorapaxar, its cardiovascular drug developed to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome. The announcement issued by MRK mentions that the trial is going to continue for those patients who do not have acute coronary syndrome but have either had a previous heart […]
model this month. Some believe that airlines in emerging markets are in for a surge of business as travel to the regions they serve becomes more popular. This
In Covestor’s American Heroes model, manager American Values Investments (CEO Carter LeCraw pictured at left) employs a proprietary methodology to determine what companies should be considered “American Heroes.” The firm defines an American Hero as “a public company that highly reflects the American values of Integrity, Humility, Diligence and Caring.” The […]
Author: Yale Bock, YH&C Investments Covestor Model: GARP Disclosures: Long GIGM, DGI, NDAQ, CASS, CLGX, JMBA December 2010 was a month of low volume and was overall pretty non eventful. A new fiscal year brings a fresh outlook for portfolio managers, and outperformance is the goal. There are varying opinions […]