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The TRUTH of Insider Trading a la Joshua Brown

by on April 28, 2010

I liked Joshua Brown’s Insider Buying/Selling: The Collected Wisdom of a Thousand Heartbreaks (see it also posted at the CSMonitor with the toned-down title: ‘Debunking myths…’) There has been a lot of talk during this rally that the insiders — in the aggregate — were selling stock all the way.  The Pragmatic Capitalist has done a good [...]

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Investment newsletters REALLY bearish — time to buy?

by on February 4, 2010

Wow! Expectations that U.S. stocks will drop at least 10% has risen to the highest levels since April 1984. In a recent survey of investment newsletters by Investors Intelligence, Bloomberg reports that: The following are results from Investors Intelligence’s analysis of investment newsletters for Jan. 27 through yesterday. The company determines the proportion of writers [...]

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Sunday Reading: Getting fraudy

by on July 26, 2009

Financial institutions filed nearly 13% more reports of fraud compared with 2007 (The Economist) Value stock screen for potential activist targets (The Manual of Ideas) Comparison of All-World ETFs (ETF Trends) I think this recession (and sluggish recovery) will continue to make history, and that most of these forecasts are actually too optimistic (Calculated Risk) [...]

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The profitable other side of financial social media

by on July 23, 2009

Because it has broader appeal, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about the demand side of financial social media.  Investors can use tools like following their favorite investors portfolio moves on Covestor or crowdsource ideas on Piqqem or use AlphaClone to create the same portfolio Warren Buffett has. There are other great [...]

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Weekend Reading: Fiduciary Reform (exciting!)

by on July 3, 2009

If you elect to hold yourself out as a fiduciary, do you have to justify the use Why of mutual funds over index ETFs, which many point to as having a higher likelihood of outperforming a majority of funds net of fees and expenses? (Advice America) If brokers are fiduciaries but can continue to be compensated on [...]

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