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Following hedge fund moves just got easier

by Zack Miller on October 26, 2010

This post originally appeared on Tradestreaming, our sister site that offers the best deals on financial products — up to 80%. Sign up here. Awesome hedge fund and piggyback investing blogger, MarketFolly, just launched a subscription newsletter, Hedge Fund Wisdom (HFW). A take-off of his great blog, Jay at MarketFolly has produced a quarterly newsletter [...]

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Investomy: Helping investors build wealth together

by Zack Miller on September 27, 2010

Last week, I wrote about Kalengo, a site that enables investors to plan, research and invest using social intelligence from the cloud.  Kalengo is a U.S. firm with R&D in Asia. What’s interesting is that I’ve also interviewed the Antony Ma, founder of Investomy platform — another social investing site with roots in Asia.  This [...]

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Yahoo Finance getting into blogging game, like Forbes but different

by Zack Miller on June 17, 2010

Just penned some thoughts about the recent news that Yahoo Finance is getting into blogging and curation over at my book’s website (migrating much of my writing over there — head over and sign up!). Money quote: This is a risky strategy.  In essence, the financial portal is pitting itself opposite all its content partners [...]

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AlphaClone launches asset management services to much demand

by Zack Miller on June 8, 2010

===>>> IMPORTANT NOTE: please check out Tradestreaming.com — the site for my new book (launching soon).  Please sign up via email and/or RSS to stay plugged in to this conversation.  I’m going to begin migrating my blogging activities to that site as time unfurls (or furls, means the same). So it’s definitely important we stay [...]

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Crowdsourcing investments: it’s all about chosing the ‘right crowd’

by on April 26, 2010

We’ve spoken a lot about piggyback investing (mimicking the moves of top fund managers) and crowdsourcing ideas (using crowd sentiment to generate trading ideas) as two ‘new ways’ investors can devise profitable strategies.  The Internet is producing tons of information – the tradestream – that investors can plug into to get at this type of [...]

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Validea gets validated in Barron’s

by Zack Miller on March 21, 2010

Nice write up of Validea in Barron’s (sub. required).  The magazine profiled the Screening 2.0 service that tracks picks that would satisfy the investment criteria of some of history’s best investors. Also mentioned was the firm’s recent launch of its pro service which issues trade alerts for high-conviction stocks. On March 15, Validea launched a [...]

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Top 6 resources for piggyback investing

by on February 3, 2010

Piggyback investing is the art/science of building portfolios based on mimicking the stock picks of some of the best superinvestors — asset managers who have exhibited long term market-beating results. Early research (check out some here) has shown that investors can achieve similar returns by piggybacking as the can by investing directly with the asset [...]

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Bloomberg finds piggybacking analysts sucks

by on January 19, 2010

John Dorfman, investor and Bloomberg columnist, has been following the 4 most popular and hated stocks among Wall Street analysts for the past 11 years. According to Dorfman’s research: For 11 of the past 12 years, I have studied the performance of analysts’ four favorite stocks, and the fate of the four they most scorned…Their [...]

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You too can be the fund manager of the decade (kinda)

by on November 24, 2009

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 [...]

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