The investment arm of leading investment community, Covestor (see my coverage of the firm), just pimped out its search functionality. With the new changes, it’s easier to drill down on managed portfolios by strategy, return, and risk metrics. From the search results, investors can lean more about individual portfolios or allocate capital to them, via [...]
Measuring performance for all types of fund managers In thinking about expert investing communities like Covestor and Kaching, one of the main concerns users/investors should have is in how to judge performance of stock-jockeys. These communities, which allow pretty much anyone to set up a portfolio and for others to piggyback on top of them [...]
by Zack Miller on January 20, 2009
This interview is with George Tsiolis, CEO of pure online IR firm, AGORACOM. George and I have conversed for years about the cutting-edge of the IR world. George is a forward thinker and an indefatigable executive and shares his thoughts about his firm, the state of the art in financial communications and the future for [...]
by Zack Miller on January 6, 2009
This post appeared recently on IRWebReport as part of a guest contributor series I’ve been working on. I thought it was a good overview and appropriate here for NewRules. Dominic Jones is really a thought leader in his field and is really ramming it home on his analysis of how social media is impacting investor [...]
by Zack Miller on December 23, 2008
This post appeared recently on IRWebReport as part of a guest contributor series I’ve been working on. I thought it was a good overview and appropriate here for NewRules. Dominic Jones is really a thought leader in his field and is really ramming it home on his analysis of how social media is impacting investor [...]
by Zack Miller on December 15, 2008
There is not a soul in the world that I live in that has not been touched somehow by the Madoff scandal. Read Paul Kedrosky’s take on the “fraud of frauds“. He’s got a great read on the whole thing. There are so many questions still left unanswered but I’d like to discuss what to [...]
by Zack Miller on December 13, 2008
Say what you want, but Timothy Sykes is a master marketer. The young upstart money manager and stock analyst is seemingly ubiquitous these days. He’s cocky – sure, he’s pretty full of himself. But there is so much to learn from Timothy, it’s worth spending some time to understand how a master builds his investment [...]
by Zack Miller on December 4, 2008
We’ve spent time exploring expert investing communities on the site recently. Activity in these communities contribute to certain experts bubbling up to the top, thereby revealing and tracking those actions of a select few emergent experts. We now turn our attention to sort of the other side of the coin: crowd sourcing for stock picks. [...]
by Zack Miller on November 21, 2008
Most people who trade relatively frequently don’t realize huge profits. Their losses typically match their gains, cancelling out much of their activity and racking up transaction costs. Others, particularly whom I like to refer to as guru investors, just print money.