While stocks are still suffering after last year’s smackdown and previously virile research houses are left impotent, we do find ourselves in the throes of a bull market for investment research. It’s not the broker-calling-his-client-with-a-hot-pick type, but rather just tons of great research work being done on stocks daily posted to the Internet — much [...]
by Zack Miller on June 2, 2009
AlphaClone is probably the best research platform out there for investors looking to recreate, or “clone”, portfolios developed by leading hedge fund and mutual fund managers. AlphaClone is Mebane Faber’s online foray that implements much of the research he recently published in The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear [...]
by Zack Miller on December 9, 2008
Why create new, unfounded and unproven investment strategies when you can piggyback on top of the world’s best investors instead? Lots of investors are using the ideas of guru investors like Ken Heebner and Warren Buffett to mimic their investment strategies or build an all-star portfolio based on the best ideas of leading hedge fund [...]