Archive for January, 2008
Presidential Elections and the Stock Market
Super Tuesday is coming up in a week and this year’s presidential elections are heating up. With all sorts of worries about the markets and the greater economy, can history enlighten us on what to expect? Maybe it can even tell us who to vote for!
Keynesian economics was first postulated in 1936 and became widely [...]
2007 Curious Investments Equity Income Strategy In Depth
And, in the final report on my current investment strategies, we’re looking at my dividend income based strategy. The portfolio has lost pretty significant value over the last few months, but this portfolio is built for the long term. While I do stress capital appreciation a little bit more than most dividend strategies, the intention [...]
read more »2007 Portfolio B in Depth
Alright, in the same form as yesterday’s post on Portfolio A, we have a little position-by-position breakdown on Portfolio B. Once again, I feel a little weird touting the picks here in Portfolio B after the last two weeks have all but erased much of the performance. These stocks have suffered greatly from what seems [...]
read more »2007 Portfolio A in Depth
Well, it’s been a while since I last posted due to some power outages from the recent storm here in Massachusetts as well as a week long ski trip. Given the horrible sell off we’ve seen over the last few weeks, it seems almost unnecessary to go into the trades made over the last year [...]
read more »2007 Year End Review
Well, it was a long and eventful year in the markets. Let’s take a look back at how The Curious Investor did. I’ve posted an Excel Spreadsheet with a review of my 2007-2008 trades as well as some calculations on the performance of the respective strategies which I run. You can get the whole file [...]
read more »Investment Resolutions for 2008
Happy New Year Everyone! My laptop is out of service right now so I haven’t been able to crunch end of year numbers on my investment portfolios, but that will be coming in the next few days. With markets closed today, I figured it’s a good time to reflect on the past year and share [...]
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