Archive for December, 2007
2008 Crystal Ball
Maybe I’m showing a bit of hubris here by attempting to share my investment predictions for the next year. But, what’s a blog for right? This post is pure conjecture, but I will revisit it in a year to see how close any of predictions were. So, let’s do a run down of a few [...]
read more »Merry Christmas!
No scrooging it up with talk of investing and money today. Hope you all used your earnings this year to buy some great gifts for your loved ones (and yourself)! Enjoy the holidays. We’ll see you soon. I have a feeling Santa has a little rally in store for us in the next week or [...]
read more »The Santa Claus Rally
Are the markets cyclical? Is society always doomed to repeat itself? It would seem that simple human nature and our fascination with using regressive analysis to predict future performance would almost mandate such behavior in the markets. We’ve all heard the old saying, “Sell in May and Go Away.” A few months ago, I posted [...]
read more »A Dividend Primer
I realized in my update on the Curious Investments Equity Income Strategy that I’ve never really done a tutorial on dividends here at The Curious Investor. Dividend terminology can sometimes be confusing, but it’s good to understand them as there are periods in time when dividends become a very important part of returns from equity [...]
read more »November 2007 Update (Part 3/3)
Curious Investments Equity Income Strategy At the end of the summer, I was leaving work for an investment management firm which believes in buying low P/E high dividend stocks. I learned a lot over the summer and realized that a high dividend yield portfolio does have its merits and thought that I theorized put together [...]
read more »November 2007 Update (Part 2/3)
Portfolio B Portfolio B represents my “long-term” strategy which seeks to identify companies with strong brands or reputations which are attractively valued. It’s not a strict value portfolio in the sense that I am willing to pay for growth but the growth must be corroborated by sustained earnings and cash flow performance. Some technical analysis [...]
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