by Zack Miller on September 20, 2010
Lots of interesting stuff going on in financial services. I recently had the opportunity to chat (email, really) with Carol Yuyi Zhou, Director of Marketing for Kalengo. Kalengo is really a hybrid of a lot of what’s interesting in today’s online investing environment: social, analytics, financial content curation, cross-platform, etc. It’s kind of a cross-breed [...]
by Zack Miller on June 6, 2010
Wikinvest: What it is and where it’s going Don’t get me wrong. I really like the guys at Wikinvest. I’ve written a lot about how well their crowdsourced information and annotatable charts kicks the pants off of more static resources. I’ve also contended that the way Wikinvest deals with investment data is better by leaps [...]
As investors, we sometimes get too fixed on trying to find financial metrics that provide some level of predictability to stock price movement. A recent study shows that low price/sales and price/earnings ratios aren’t the only thing we should be looking at. The BrandZ portfolio, developed by leading public relations firm, WPP’s Millward Brown Optimor, [...]
For kicks, I just did a small test last week. I created a portfolio of the most bought stocks on Covestor over the last month and wanted to compare how well these picks perform versus the greater market, say the S&P 500. Results were interesting and a bit misleading (a nice sample set of the [...]