Blackrock’s Dennis Stattman, whose Global Allocation Institutional fund has been one of the better performing funds in its class over the past five and ten years, says he’s keying on companies that are based in developed markets but have exposure to the strong growth in emerging markets. Stattman also tells Bloomberg that he takes a [...]
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Top Manager Getting Less Defensive
December 28, 2011
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Top mid-cap fund manager Jonathan Simon says he’s adding some risk to his portfolio heading into 2012, and is high on some regional banking stocks. Simon tells CNBC that he is particularly concerned with a company’s free cash flow, and how it uses that cash. “They have to have a very disciplined approach to capital [...]
Read moreTop Managers Look To Unloved Japanese Stocks
December 19, 2011
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While Japanese stocks have for years has yielded little for investors, some top value investors are keen on the country. In a column for SmartMoney, Brett Arends writes that Japan’s “stock market is cheap. Possibly very cheap — at a time when nearly everything else looks pricey. The Nikkei 225, Japan’s major stock market index, [...]
Read moreSonders Sees U.S. Stocks Outperforming in 2012
December 15, 2011
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Charles Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders, whose economic predictions have been very accurate over the past several years, says she expects the U.S. to continue to slowly grow in 2012 and the stock market to revert to a more normal environment. Sonders tells MarketWatch she thinks volatility and correlations will decline in the coming year, which [...]
Read moreWhat Bolton Likes In China
December 12, 2011
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Top U.K. fund manager Anthony Bolton thinks that China’s economy is better than many realize, and is particularly high on the country’s consumption and services sectors. “We have been through an extraordinarily volatile year but I believe that when the dust settles and things calm down, investors will focus on relative growth rates they can [...]
Read moreThe Gurus Dig Deep For Resource Plays
December 12, 2011
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In his latest article for Nasdaq.com, Validea CEO John Reese takes a look at some natural resource-related stocks that look attractive right now. “With the world population continuing to rise, global economies running for the most part on non-renewable resources, and central banks injecting huge sums of money into the financial system in recent years, [...]
Read moreTop Small-Cap Manager Plays It Safe
December 9, 2011
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Small-cap growth is an area of the stock market that would seem to imply frequent trading and extra risk. But Jeff Cardon, whose Wasatch Small Cap Growth Fund has been one of the best performers in its class for more than a decade, has built a strong track record without high turnover or added risk. [...]
Read moreA Sector For All Seasons
December 9, 2011
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In his latest Forbes.com column, Validea CEO John Reese looks at new data about what sector of the stock market has provided the most bang for investors’ bucks over the long haul. Reese draws from James O’Shaughnessy’s newly updated book What Works on Wall Street. ”From 1968 through 2009, O’Shaughnessy found that consumer staples averaged compound [...]
Read moreWhat Buffett Sees In The Newspaper Biz
December 5, 2011
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Warren Buffett created a stir with Berkshire Hathaway’s recent acquisition of the Omaha World-Herald, with his firm venturing into an industry that has numerous questions swirling around it. Just what did Buffett see in buying the Nebraska newspaper? Last week, he explained his logic to World-Herald shareholders. Accoridng to the World-Herald’s Steve Jordon, Buffett said [...]
Read moreFive More Tech Sector Plays for Buffett
November 25, 2011
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In his latest article for Seeking Alpha, Validea CEO John Reese says that Warren Buffett’s recent IBM buy actually isn’t all that out of character for the tech-wary Buffett — and says other “Buffett-esque” tech stocks are out there right now. “While Buffett’s IBM move was surprising given [his previous tech sector] comments, it wasn’t [...]
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