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Zack on Abnormal Returns TV

by Zack Miller on May 11, 2011

Tadas at Abnormal Returns had me on last week for a conversation about all the crazy things I do. From my book, Tradestreaming, to the ebook I published to help financial people get books published, to my free download on how to grow a financial services business like Ken Fisher did. We talked a lot [...]

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I’ve always looked up to Ken Fisher. Fisher has written a few essential investment books. He’s appears regularly on financial TV and investment mags. He’s also a billionaire (which helps the panache). But more than that, I’m impressed by how he grew his firm using cutting-edge marketing techniques. One of the largest investment advisors in [...]

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Learn the basics of Screening 2.0 by book

by Zack Miller on April 30, 2009

Giving thanks Sometimes you just have to give thanks.  When you use something, it’s good practice to give credit to those behind the product’s creation. I’ve been giving a successful seminar locally for about 1 1/2 years.  It’s very user-friendly in the sense that the topics we discuss are driven by the participants.  We’ve learned [...]

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Downside of piggyback investing

by Zack Miller on December 10, 2008

After yesterday’s review of the latest entry into the piggyback investing game (read what piggyback investing is and why it’s important), alphaCLONE, I came across a chart that I felt needed to be shared. The chart below is the chart of a fabled value investor, Bill Miller, of Legg Mason. It was part of a [...]

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Institutional investors have powerful tools at their disposal to screen through reams of data.  Part of the institutional investment process entails screening through thousands of securities looking for a needle in a haystack — stocks that fit certain investment criteria.  From thousands of stocks, analysts can filter through a couple of hundred that fit these [...]

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