What Is A Hedge Fund? In the simplest sense, a hedge fund is a firm that invests capital for its investors. Typically, hedge fund clients are institutional investors (anyone who is charge of allocating a large pool of capital) or accredited investors (e.g. high net worth individuals).The traditional definition is that hedge funds are able…
It seems like the entire world is focusing on the 2009 U.S. holiday shopping season. Around this time each year, the media, clients and friends ask us countless questions on the subject. Most people want to know what a so-called “expert” thinks will happen on any given event. Predicting the future is impossible because the simple truth is that no one really knows what will happen. Instead, these “experts” offer their opinion which at times will be correct and other times will be incorrect. After all, we all know how valuable opinions are, right?
Conclusion: Technicals Lead, Fundamentals Lag. The following two case studies illustrate a very important point: The market and individual stocks (i.e. technicals) move months BEFORE the fundamentals move (up or down). The reasons “why” are lengthy and outside the scope of this article. Instead of discussing the “why” we shall focus on the “what.” The reason is…
Alan “Ace” Greenberg on The Rise & Fall Of Bear Stearns
Here Is An Excerpt From FindLeadingStocks.com’s Intra-Week Update. If You Want To Buy Leading Stocks…EARLY. Sign Up Here… FLS Update: All Eyes On The ECB Holding Pattern Continues Ahead of Thursday’s ECB Meeting The U.S. stock market is holding up rather well as global markets continue trading all over the map and earnings are being released in…
6/1/15… It’s more complicated than you think The jury’s still out on how history will treat the Federal Reserve’s unprecedented stimulus program. After the central bank pushed its main policy rate to zero in December 2008, it started buying hundreds of billions of government debt and mortgage-backed securities to keep longer-term interest rates low. That became known as…