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Shopify Issuing Shares? No surprise there!
I’ve seen this movie over and over again. A stock rages upward, and instead of letting investors simply enjoy the ride the company has to ruin it by issuing (diluting) more shares. This is just the first volley – expect … Continue reading
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Tagged equities, internet, opportunities, overbought, overvalued, sell, SHOP, stock market, stocks, technology
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Time to sell tech stocks? Yes!
On March 25th I suggested it was okay to buy tech stocks, and featured a couple of ETF’s. I did buy at the time, and have enjoyed a 50% return in less than 2 months. Let’s face it, with bond … Continue reading
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Tagged coronavirus, ETF's, maverickinvestors, overbought, overvalued, price-to-earnings, recession, sell, stocks, technology
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REIT’s may not be a bargain; distributions depend on rent being paid.
The Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) has had a marvelous decade as property values just kept rising. It inspired large institutional investors (pension funds for e.g.) to get directly involved. The Canada Pension Plan has 12.1% invested in real estate. … Continue reading
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Tagged capital, coronavirus, debt, distribution, interest rates, prices, real estate, risk, sell, yields
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RIM – stock-picking shame and salvation!
Finally RIM is getting some respect. Today ScotiaCapital upgraded the stock to a sector outperform rating: “In our view RIM does not need to deliver the best selling smartphone in order to deliver an upside EPS surprise. And we believe … Continue reading
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Is stock market going to tumble over the fiscal cliff?
I saw the following comment/question just the other day and was surprised since it was in response to a posting I initiated way back in August 2011 entitled “Is the market on thin ice?” The theme of the original commentary … Continue reading
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Tagged 500, bearish, bonds, buy, cliff, coffers, consensus, deficits, experts, fiscal, fiscal cliff, government, guidebook, interest, investor, investors, malvin, malvinspooner, managers, market, maverick, maverickinvestors.com, politics, portfolio, rates, risk, s&p, S&P500, sell, spooner, stocks, strategists, values
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Hiring…..? Go for the older guys! Part deux.
In an earlier but extremely popular posting entitled –Hiring Portfolio Managers? Go for the older guys! – I hinted that age discrimination, at least when it comes to the investment industry is a bad idea, even if it is endemic. I have no supporting … Continue reading
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Tagged age, alpha, assets, Bear, bonds, buy, career, cash, client, committees, consulting, CPP, discrimination, experience, finance, fundamental, guidebook, guidelines, hiring, human, investment, investors, mal, malvin, management, managers, markets, maverick, modelling, money, panic, policy, portfolio, predict, professionals, quantitative, resources, risk, sell, spooner, statements, style, wealth
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Goldman Sachs advice scares the beejeebies out of me!
“We think it’s time to say a ‘long good-bye’ to bonds, and embrace the ‘long good buy’ for equities” announces Goldman Sachs! This sort of pronouncement has the ability to turn someone who’s been a diehard bull since 2010 into … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, banker, bonds, buy, equities, ethical, financial, goldman, Greg Smith, guidebook, institutional, investors, mal, maverick, maverickinvestors, measurement, moral, new, oppenheimer, performance, prices, products, prospects, resignation, retail, returns, ripping, s&p, S&P 500, sachs, sell, spooner, stocks, strategist, Times, valuations, york
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Wanna be a Portfolio Manager? Forget the ‘walk’ and learn the ‘talk’!
Portfolio managers become very adept at covering their everyday-idiot side and at a moment’s notice switching on their learned-professional alter ego. Like the Two Face character from Batman comics, it’s often difficult to determine who it is you’re actually talking … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, bonds, bottom, buy, cautiously, cfa, consumer confidence, investments, investors, lingo, mal, manager, managers, market, maverick, money, optimistic, portfolio, professional, S&P500, sell, spooner
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Sell in May and go away? Smarter to buy in July!
Seems we may be getting a taste of the seasonality I warned about in prior postings (and discussed in my literary masterpiece A Maverick Investor’s Guidebook – also available as an ebook for the digitally minded). If you’re like most novice investors and only … Continue reading
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