The National Association of Realtors added a little fuel to the market-rising fire today with their October Pending Home Sales report (found here). The report states that pending home sales increased by 10.4 percent in October. Also bolstering investor confidence was an article on Reuters reporting that Cyber Monday sales […]
We added a few new model managers and models to Covestor this week. The first is Sreeni Meka, a value investor who has a sixteen year history investing. In order to choose positions for his model, Sreeni conducts an in-depth analysis of companies by reviewing their annual and quarterly financial […]
U.S. markets rose substantially today after a spate of positive news and forecasts were released. First, the ADP National Employment Report for November was issued and noted that there was an increase of 93,000 private-sector jobs for the month. In addition, the increase of 43,000 noted for October was revised […]
Closed End Fund IPOs are always priced at a premium to their Net Asset Value (“NAV”) so regardless how good or bad the investment is for its new shareholders, such an announcement always marks a particular marketing feat.
In the Luxury Liner model, Covestor manager GEARS takes a fundamental approach based on financial statement analysis and uses documentation interpretation software to identify unusually depressed companies. Recently, Direxion Daily Large Cap Bear 3X Shares (BGZ) was added to the model. The goal of the fund is to deliver results […]
The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed a 2 percent decline in home prices in the third quarter of 2010, a disappointing (though not entirely surprising) follow-up to the 4.7 percent increase in prices reported in quarter two. The report (found here) also states that house prices are currently 1.7 percent […]
Most of life’s encounters, good or bad in social welfare, present us each individually with the opportunity to choose our own long term benefits and detriments. By circumstance, I was exposed professionally to see Mary Meeker’s high times at Morgan Stanley while the ink was still wet on my undergraduate diploma. I’ll call loosely the phenomenon “Mary’s World”. In the spirit of the Holiday Season, I’d like to offer “Thanks” for the wisdom provided by a youthful exposure to Mary’s World.
The notion of “Asset Captivity” among Closed-End Funds doesn’t get much mainstream press. Instead, mainstream press focuses on a primary symptom: the illusion of a Black Friday sale on the New York Stock Exchange. A market price representing a discount to Net Asset Value (“NAV”) is only a relevant bargain if the discount is going to narrow at some point in time. Such occurs less often among funds whose governance choices could conceivable be interpreted as prioritizing Assets Under Management (“AUM”) or billable assets over shareholder value.
On Friday, November 19th, 2010, the market price of Energy Income and Growth Fund (FEN) declined significantly while the Net Asset Value (“NAV”) increased. A market premium narrowing roughly by half in just one day showcases the supply demand dynamics affecting Closed-End Funds (“CEFs”).