by Zack Miller on October 3, 2010
Yahoo Finance, still the 800 lb gorilla in online finance, has a new video aggregation site here. Now following similar moves in data and news and opinion (see providers here), Yahoo Finance has begun selectively aggregating financial video. This makes Yahoo Finance, in spite of all its shortcomings, just all the more valuable in the [...]
by Zack Miller on March 15, 2010
Screening 2.0 and beyond Readers of this site have learned a bit about Screening 2.0 — the ability to use Internet tools (many of them, free) to recreate portfolios that conform to the investment criteria of history’s best investors. Validea’s John Reese has done much of the research legwork on the subject and has produced [...]
Why the stock market is up over 70% from its March 2009 low (First Adopter) Strip mall vacancy rate hits 10.6%, highest on record (CalculatedRisk) Who says “Hmmm, it’s 11 o’clock. I wonder what Felix Salmon has written about Morgan Stanley since breakfast?” (MarketWatch) Raj paid a tipster for information (WSJ) Max Olson on Steak [...]
Morningstar announced yesterday its nominees for a new award Morningstar Fund Manager of the Decade. According to Morningstar: The Manager of the Decade award is not just about returns. We consider the risks assumed to achieve those results and take into account the strength of the manager, strategy, and firm’s stewardship. We also think it’s [...]