Few stock picks with insider buying that one specific investment house likes. A look at five stock picks that are seeing significant insider buying activity, with Robert Maltbie, Singular Research managing director
February 23, 2010 – 6:19 am
Picking up on recent theme showcasing 6 top resources for following top hedge fund managers (piggyback investing) and the web’s best stock screens, I’d like to spend a little ink on bubbling up the best resources to track insider moves.
Research (much good work has been written about in Investor Intelligence from Insider Trading by finance [...]
February 15, 2010 – 6:15 am
We’ve written for a while that for certain purposes, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are a better mousetrap.
As Mutual Funds 2.0, ETFs have introduced:
new ways to implement investing ideas (eg. country exposure to Poland, Chile, etc.)
made existing ideas easier to trade (leveraged long and short funds, buy-write strategies)
provided continuous pricing (unlike Mutual Funds that price [...]
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February 7, 2010 – 8:33 am
Just doing some thinking about the growth and future of the ETF industry:
In my eyes, ETFs began as a second-generation of mutual funds with the following characteristics:
Passively managed: ETFs were passively managed (though that’s changing), building upon Jack Bogle’s success at Vanguard. Most research at the time clung to the Efficient Market Hypothesis and academics [...]
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February 1, 2010 – 6:14 am
Long standing conventional wisdom has it that small caps exhibit a “size-effect” — they tend to outperform larger stocks in general over the long term.
MarketSci has done some great work digging in to why this is the case in a recent article. According to the post:
I break from conventional wisdom on the subject of the [...]
January 31, 2010 – 5:40 am
In a hyperactive market, brokers continue to compete on speed. According to the Tabb Group (quoted in this Bloomberg article), almost 61% of U.S. stock market activity and 70% of individual trades were part of a high-speed trading technique. For brokers competing in this environment, technology and services are critical in executing these trades.
Institutional clients [...]
