Here's Robert Seawright, who
writes about investors» behavioral foibles on his Above the Marketblog, explaining that Phelan's explanation, while counterintuitive, «is wholly consistent with catastrophes of various sorts in the natural world and in society»:
On January 21, 2016,
we wrote about an investor who made a $ 10 + million covered call trade in Johnson Controls (JCI).
Not exact matches
To promote the book, she started a blog, called Footnoted.org, where she
wrote about corporate shenanigans and other news
investors could use buried in the — you guessed it — SEC documents» fine print.
In his March note to
investors, Marks admits that when he set out to
write about liquidity, he didn't believe the topic was all that interesting or profound; in the month since Marks
wrote the piece, it has been the market's chief concern.
He
wrote a genuinely humble letter to his
investors about his bad judgment that caused their investments to falter.
«If
investors spent less time listening to the talking heads on BNN and CNBC and more time studying history, they would realize that there is little value added by obsessing
about economic growth,» Murray Leith, an analyst at Odlum Brown in Vancouver,
wrote last fall.
Entrepreneurs who are looking to attract
investors need to develop and pitch a plan — preferably
written — that answers every potential
investor question
about your startup before it is asked.
One crypto
investor writes: «I certainly would not put a single cent I care more than nil
about losing into this.»
As a startup advisor and
investor, I recommend a pitch deck with
about 10 slides backed up with a
written business plan of approximately 20 pages, both containing quantified answers to the following key questions.
Noyes
wrote that Telegram's approach is «incompatible with blockchain technology,» and said that as an
investor, «I certainly would not put a single cent I care more than nil
about losing into this.»
Steve
writes: If I were a large
investor or board member of Uber, I would worry
about the downside to the company and liability to the board if / when the government decides to come after the company.
John Dorfman, founder of institutional
investor firm Thunderstorm Capital in Boston, tracked analysts» four most loved and hated stocks from 1998 to 2009, and
wrote about the results in his Bloomberg column last year.
«As I love markets, I'm excited
about this change and expect to remain a professional
investor at Bridgewater until I die or until those running Bridgewater don't want me anymore,» Dalio
wrote in a letter on LinkedIn.
They concluded the tendency of the financial press to
write more
about «crashes» than «booms» affected
investor attitudes and the future.
That was how James Hong (angel
investor, badass, founder of HotOrNot) responded to an article I had
written two years ago
about the loneliness of being a founder.
With membership renewal rates on the decline, and management expecting this to continue for another six months, «this remains a top focus for
investors given concerns
about the competitive environment and migration to online shopping,» Jefferies analyst Daniel Binder
wrote in a note to clients.
The gene - silencing strategy, in the form of RNA interference, has also showed promise against an uncommon neurodegenerative disease called hereditary ATTR amyloidosis, as my colleague Sy Mukherjee
wrote about in Fortune's year - end
Investor's Guide.
I
wrote about him in an article, got him as an advisor when we started Elite Daily, and he became a dear friend and an
investor.
Whether you're the CEO of a venture - backed startup
writing a letter to
investors about the current state of business or crafting the perfect job description to hire your first employee, your ability t...
Indeed, when I
wrote my 2003 book, Value Leadership, after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, I was thinking
about how important it is for a business to act based on values that make employees, customers, and communities better off — which ultimately benefits a company's
investors.
Writing about the recent FASB and SEC actions, Dayen quoted SEC
Investor Advisory Committee (IAC) member Damon Silvers, who expressed the view that «The feeling of this body [IAC] is that more disclosure is better than less in general.
Wrote Credit Suisse in a late - April report on Nestlé: «We and
investors are
about to find out whether the biggest food company can turn around one of the largest categories in «Big Food.»»
In the June 13 issue of Canadian Business, I
wrote about how
investors can play defense with their equity allocation.
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This newly - created
investor fear over a potential government shutdown has caused the S&P 500 futures to slide
about -0.8 % lower as of this
writing (pre-market on September 30).
If you are looking for a more advanced explanation that is suited for wealthy individuals and professional
investors, I
wrote about this same topic on my personal blog awhile ago in a post called How a Holding Company Works.
And so when I read Ben Graham, sort of a light bulb went off just this little article and I started reading everything I could
about what he had
written, both security analysis and the intelligent
investor, and eventually led my way to Warren Buffett and you know, sort of the rest is history, it's a very good age, you know I was younger than 21 at the time you know junior year of college to recognize that this was what I was going to be doing the rest my life.
The final lesson from Soros is quite similar to the lesson we
wrote about a couple quarters ago in #NotDifferentThisTime on the wisdom of Sir John Templeton who said that
investors would always ask him where is the best place to invest, and he would respond to them that this was exactly the wrong question and that they should rather be asking where is it the most miserable?
5 weeks ago, Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal
wrote a great article
about the loss of trust in the market by retail
investors.
The father of value investing and the entire securities analysis industry, legendary
investor Benjamin Graham,
wrote a considerable amount during his career
about the importance of the interest coverage ratio, especially as it pertained to bond
investors making bond selections.
In 2003, I edited the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's classic text, The Intelligent
Investor, which Warren Buffett has called «by far the best book
about investing ever
written.»
Here's a piece I
wrote recently for Bloomberg talking
about both short - and long - term volatility in the markets and how
investors can think
about its meaning.
I
wrote about this aspect of seed stage investing in my blog posts on Jason Calacanis, Steve Anderson and other
investors.
«This puts the existing U.S. bladder cancer approval in serious doubt, and will also, of course, raise market concerns
about Tecentriq's efficacy in other cancer types,» Kepler Cheuvreux analyst David Evans
wrote in a note to
investors.
I was once thinking
about writing a blog post called «Is Reid Hoffman the Kevin Bacon of Silicon Valley» because it seemed that every angel / seed
investor I knew looking at deals was shopping their deal to Reid and everybody wanted Reid's opinion before committing.
«The nightmare scenario would be a categorical classification from the SEC that all tokens are, in fact, securities,» long - time crypto startup entrepreneur Ryan Selkis
wrote on the Messari blog recently, after news came out that major
investors had met with the SEC
about this new industry.
On June 30, star
investor Chris Sacca
wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story
about McClure).
At the time of this
writing, there are only 3 days left until the start of the ICO pre-sale, and we don't know anything
about who is eligible to join or whether there will be discounts or other benefits for early
investors.
Back in 1999, Robert G. Hagstrom
wrote a book
about the legendary
investor Warren Buffett entitled «The Warren Buffett Portfolio.»
Uber
investor Ashton Kutcher is defending Uber from comments that one of its executives made on Friday, in which the exec casually threatened to launch a smear campaign against a specific journalist who had
written negatively
about the company.
Value Investing has it roots with Benjamin Graham (1894 - 1976, that's a long time ago), he
wrote two great books
about value investing: «Security Analysis» and «The Intelligent
Investor» (I read the latter, it has some nice anecdotes and is REALLY boring).
So for something you
write about, you take your positions first, publish something on it for your
investors, I have a look and decide whether to follow you or not.
I had an additional two paragraphs
written about Dole's TEV / EBIT and ROIC margins but those had to be scrapped since I have still not heard back from Dole
investor relations
about new Dole's exact numbers and I did not want to speculate.
In one of my latest blogposts, I
wrote about the importance of putting rock solid defensive companies such as consumer staples at the core of the investment portfolio in order to build an ever growing passive income machine as a dividend growth
investor.
I don't often
write about global geopolitics because I think, in general,
investors spend too much time worrying
about things they can't control or aren't going to happen or wouldn't matter much if they did.
(I
wrote about VRSN in this summary as well as in last year's
investor letter — Saber Capital owns VRSN).
They
write and help
about securities» class actions and other legal actions that affect
investors holdings.
I'm planning to
write a blog post
about his findings, but I can tell you that being a «naive
investor», meaning that you put the same amount of money into all of your holdings, significantly underperforms several other strategies.
In his 2011 letter to shareholders, Buffett
wrote about three investment methods available to all
investors.
Benartzi's research focuses on how retirement plans can increase effectiveness and Markowitz, dubbed, «The Father of Modern Portfolio Theory» has
written about the importance of crafting an asset allocation that can help achieve gains while protecting
investors from market volatility.