February 08, 2010 9:36 PM ET

Models

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Risk Growth

Growth

Invests in the future prospects of growing companies and sectors. Typically, growth investors care less about price/earnings ratios and other valuation measures and more about earnings growth.

 
Macro

Macro

Aims to profit from changes in the direction of economies. Typically takes a view on shifts in government policy or consumer behaviour that will impact currency, stock and bond markets.

 
Market Timing

Market Timing

Looks for indicators to predict the future direction of a stock, or of the market. Often use technical analysis to screen for opportunities considered likely to continue or reverse their trajectory.

 
Opportunistic

Opportunistic

Investment theme changes from strategy to strategy as opportunities arise. Will include those who invest based on recommendations, sudden price changes or other event driven opportunities such as IPOs. May use several of the other investing styles and not restricted to any particular approach.

 
Sector Focus

Sector Focus

Utilizes expert understanding of a sector or theme to make investment decisions.

 
Special Situations

Special Situations

Invests in event driven situations such as mergers, reorganizations or buyouts. May involve simultaneous purchase of the stock being acquired, and sale of stock in the acquirer; hoping to profit from the difference between the current market price and the eventual sale price.

 
Specialist Knowledge

Specialist Knowledge

Uses unique or particular access to information not available or typically evaluated by all market participants, to drive investment decisions.

 
Value

Value

Invests in securities perceived to be selling at a discount to their intrinsic or potential worth. Often based on an assessment that the market has not accurately priced the true value of the company.

 
5     Timothy Sykes
Tim Sykes Agg
Daleela Farina
John Rodgers
  Douglas Estadt
Sean Hannon Agg
4 Peter Kurata
Jeff Boarman
R Foo
Michael Arold
Craig Steury
Brendan Burke
Patrick Clark
Alejandro Paschalides
D Fried Income
D Fried Diverse
  Sean Hannon
Alfonso J Mooney
3 Norimasa Yoshida
             
2 MosaicFinancial
Brian Lin
Stephanie Sammons
Paul MacNamara
Jagadeshwar Porandla
Cale Smith
Ben Wong
Joseph Agresti
A Djordjalian
Andy Schornack
Yale Bock
Yinglan Tan
Vivian Lewis
Jack Brown
Robert Freedland
Ryan Lee
Richard Moore
Prism Capital
1 Conrad Leifur
Richard K Tahta
           

A-Z Directory

Joseph Agresti Sector Focus

Joseph Agresti

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 16.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He focuses solely on Chinese and Indian securities traded on US Exchanges believing that these two countries present the best opportunities for significant returns.  He uses a momentum-based approach utilizing technical screens and fundamental analysis.


Michael Arold Market timing

Michael Arold

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 49.73

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Using multiple technical indicators, surveys the movements in the market and the sectors and stocks that are leading the way. Once interesting sectors or companies are identified takes a discretionary view, based on fundamentals, of likely moves in the opposite direction (i.e. have these been oversold or overbought). Short term model looking to capture profits in short term price swings.


Jeff Boarman Macro

Jeff Boarman

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 57.89

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Jeff has designed programmatic trading rules which filter all securities trading above $1 per share with average volume of over 300,000 shares over the past 20 day period.  The system then focuses on securities which are trending upward, but have recently experienced a small sell-off.  Finally, the system ranks each stock based on volatility metrics, taking advantage of larger dips and more volatile stocks. He also employs a system which seeks to buy or sell the broad market, typically using ETFs, when it is overbought or oversold.


Yale Bock Special Situations

Yale Bock

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Yale is a growth investor focusing on fundamental analysis including cash ratios, liquidity ratios and margin analysis.  Also will invest in anticipation of mergers, spinoffs and arbitrage opportunities.  He runs YH&C Investments (RIA) and has over 20 years of investment experience.


MosaicFinancial Growth

MosaicFinancial

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 0.75% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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This model is designed to approximate the holdings of a typical Mosaic Financial Partner's client.  Mosaic Financial Partners, Inc. is a financial planning firm serving high net worth individuals and headquartered in San Francisco.  The portfolio is strategically allocated across asset classes.


Jack Brown Value

Jack Brown

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 3.50

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Jack Brown is the founder of Laureola Asset Management Company.  The philosophy of this dividend stock strategy is to outperform the stock market by finding companies that are trading for less than the company is worth, by avoiding companies with weak credit profiles and by focusing on dividend payers.  The portfolio aims to be fully invested in US stocks, but will occassionally hold ADRs or cash.


Brendan Burke Opportunistic

Brendan Burke

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He utilizes a momentum-based approach focusing on investor psychology and technology trends.  He focuses on the float, price action, news and earnings releases in order to select securities.  He has been trading full time since 2001.


Patrick Clark Opportunistic

Patrick Clark

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 5.17

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Believing that we are in an inflationary environment, his primary goal is to preserve the purchasing power of the dollar.  With a market-neutral portfolio, he attempts to minimize the risks of a long-only or short-only strategy.  He uses systematic trading decisions in order to eliminate emotion from the equation.


A Djordjalian Sector Focus

A Djordjalian

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 5.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Having lived his entire life in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he offers a unique perspective on South American securities.  He will diversify across countries, asset classes and industries within South America.  He combines a top-down and fundamental approach, and finds many opportunities from studying currency movements.


Douglas Estadt Specialist knowledge

Douglas Estadt

Risk Score: 5

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 181.64

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Owns a webcasting business where he hears thousands of CEO management stories each year, as they pitch to financial analysts. Given his access to these pitches he listens for powerful growth stories and takes a view on whether these are credible, and not yet fully valued in by the market. Relatively short term model that buys credible growth stories and waits for the news to be priced in.


Daleela Farina Opportunistic

Daleela Farina

Risk Score: 5

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Daleela is a financial journalist and identifies trends in the marketplace through her position in the financial media.  She primarily trades in small and microcap securities.  She uses a long-short strategy, but will not use margin in the account.


R Foo Macro

R Foo

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.33

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He uses a macroeconomic approach coupled with behavioral finance to analyze how the investing community will react to market influencers like The Fed, Wall Street, Trading Syndicates, the Media and Governments. He also implements Jesse Livermore's aggressive methods tempered with John Templeton's deep value and conservatism.


Robert Freedland Value

Robert Freedland

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 1.73

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Using secondary research takes a value based approach to primarily large cap equities and ADRs. Looks for solid companies and earnings where he does not perceive the full value to have been factored in. A popular stock blogger, and successful optical surgeon he has been investing his own funds for most of his life. Conservative medium term model looking for hidden value in leading equities.


D Fried Income Special Situations

D Fried Income

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 6.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He has structured this income-producing portfolio of companies who have bought back their own shares. He is the editor and publisher of The Buyback Letter, which has been ranked #1 in risk adjusted returns by the Hulbert Financial Digest.


D Fried Diverse Special Situations

D Fried Diverse

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He has structured this diverse portfolio of companies who have bought back their own shares. He is the editor and publisher of The Buyback Letter, which has been ranked #1 in risk adjusted returns by the Hulbert Financial Digest.


Sean Hannon Agg Value

Sean Hannon Agg

Risk Score: 5

Fees: 2.00% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 43.75

Subscription Minimum^: $30,000.00

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This aggressive model utilizes both a heavy fundamental analysis along with a market timing approach.  He combines his core portfolio positions with day trading positions.  He is a CFA and has prior experience with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Deloitte & Touche.


Sean Hannon Value

Sean Hannon

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 33.45

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Focused on around one hundred and fifty stocks, looks deep into their financial statements and restates what these might look like without any creative accounting. Using his own models of these companies projected growth; he comes up with a price point where they should be in a perfect world and trades around that price. Deep analysis model, looking to capture value from market inefficiency.


Peter Kurata Growth

Peter Kurata

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 7.40

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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“Follow the Big Money.” There are always a handful of leadership stocks propelled by big money market makers. Peter follows the CANSLIM system created by William O’Neil to find these stocks; typically companies with hot products and a proven record of high accelerated growth. CANSLIM also relies on technical analysis, based on over 100 years of stock chart research to maximize gains while minimizing risk.


Ryan Lee Value

Ryan Lee

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 1.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He employs a long-term, conservative approach with a 5-year time horizon.  Focusing on fundamentals including ROIC, free cash flow, manageable debt and a history of growth, he looks for a 30% discount to intrinsic value.


Conrad Leifur Growth

Conrad Leifur

Risk Score: 1

Fees: 0.75% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 6.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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His model is designed to outperform the S&P 500 with less volatility than the S&P 500. He invests solely in large cap S&P 500 stocks with similar sector weightings to the S&P 500, seeks to minimize turnover and trading costs, and is always fully invested.  He has 20+ years of investment research and portfolio management experience, has an MBA in Finance and is a CFA charterholder.


Vivian Lewis Specialist knowledge

Vivian Lewis

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 10.33

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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As editor of Global-Investing, the 2nd best performing US Newsletter over the past decade as rated by Hulbert Financial Digest, she offers a high-yielding international portfolio with a target yield of 5%.  She has lived abroad and has a team of international reporters researching prospects for her.


Brian Lin Growth

Brian Lin

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.86

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Utilizes a deep knowledge of options in order to gauge investor sentiment.  Will often invest when fundamentals are sound but when investor sentiment is negative.  He will also use options to find discrepencies between short-term and long-term sentiment.  He uses a bottom-up approach with an emphasis on long-term growth, relying on competitive moats and stable demand for the product or service. 


Paul MacNamara Macro

Paul MacNamara

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.67

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Paul is a senior partner at Strategic Investment Partners and manages the Firm’s Capital Appreciation ETF portfolio.  This portfolio uses a macro approach for maintaining long positions while using technical analysis to protect against short-term market volatility.  Furthermore, the portfolio uses only ETFs, including sector ETFs.


Alfonso J Mooney Value

Alfonso J Mooney

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 1.18

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Sectors go through ‘capitalization cycles’ where they are in or out of favor with investors, meaning that relatively large or small amounts of capital are available to them. Companies in sectors no one is interested in benefit from lower competitive pressure, as competitors can’t raise money. As the sectors move back into favor PE ratios in the sector rise. Long term buy and hold model in search of under-capitalized sectors and the best companies within them.


Richard Moore Value

Richard Moore

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 16.73

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Using long refined financial models, screens the market for companies based on their relative stock price movement and valuations over time. From a shortlist of potential investments, looks deep into their financial forecasts to assess their fundamental prospects for earnings growth, looking for hidden value. Long only buy and hold model.


Alejandro Paschalides Sector Focus

Alejandro Paschalides

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 2.71

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Focusing solely in the energy sector, uses a top-down approach to qualitatively narrow down investment options.  Then, applies quantitative analysis to identify specific opportunities.  Focus on fossil fuels, as they represent the overwhelming majority of the sector, but open to alternative energy plays if valuation is attractive.


Prism Capital Value

Prism Capital

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 0.75% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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John is president of Prism Capital. He has over 20 years of investment experience, an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon, and is a CFA Charterholder. He uses a fundamental approach, focusing on long-term capital appreciation and risk management. The portfolio is globally diversified, spanning many asset classes.  Prism Capital is an indepent investment advisor located in Columbia, MO. The firm provides investment management and advisory services to institutional clients and individual investors.


Jagadeshwar Porandla Market timing

Jagadeshwar Porandla

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 11.25

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He has built several mechanical trading systems using technical parameters and statistical metrics.  These systems are designed to predict a security's daily highs and lows.  He has tested thousands of securities over the past 10 years in order to refine these systems.  Highly ranked covestor.com member.


John Rodgers Sector Focus

John Rodgers

Risk Score: 5

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 5.75

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He invests solely in commodity and resource companies using a macroeconomic approach to determine which resources/commodities followed by a heavy fundamental and DCF analysis.  He is a CPA and tax executive in the commodity and resource sector.


Stephanie Sammons Growth

Stephanie Sammons

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 0.75% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 10.17

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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With an emphasis on minimizing volatility, she employs a globally balanced, globally diversified portfolio.  She invests primarily in ETFs in order to reduce costs and properly diversify.  She will never try to time the market, but will sell if the fundamentals no longer warrant holding the asset class.  She is a CFP and has 15 years of experience at both Merrill Lynch and UBS.


Andy Schornack Sector Focus

Andy Schornack

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 1.83

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Focusing on the financial service and real estate sectors, he employs a bottom-up approach, conducting detailed financial statement analysis and valuation techniques.  He invests in companies with stable dividends which are trading at a discount to fair market value.


Cale Smith Opportunistic

Cale Smith

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 3.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Focusing on long-term growth, he invests in undervalued small and mid-cap companies with underappreciated competitive advantages.  Conducts a bottoms-up analysis, emphasizing predictable owner earnings, a wide margin of safety and high odds of large gains. 


Craig Steury Market timing

Craig Steury

Risk Score: 4

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 11.33

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He is the portfolio manager and president of Velocity Systems llc., which develops proprietary trading algorithms to identify opportunities. This model will never deviate from the computerized rules. The model is both long and short and will typically have holding periods of 3 to 6 days.


Timothy Sykes Market timing

Timothy Sykes

Risk Score: 5

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 25.45

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Small cap stocks (where low volumes of the stock are available) are susceptible to unusual short term price movements, resulting from media hype or investor exuberance. By screening for tell tale chart patterns, he identifies these price movements that have no fundamental basis, and takes a position into or against them. Short term contrarian model looking for unsubstantiated movement in low cap stocks.


Tim Sykes Agg Market timing

Tim Sykes Agg

Risk Score: 5

Fees: 2.00% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 25.20

Subscription Minimum^: $50,000.00

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Small cap stocks (where low volumes of the stock are available) are susceptible to unusual short term price movements, resulting from media hype or investor exuberance. By screening for tell tale chart patterns, he identifies these price movements that have no fundamental basis, and takes a position into or against them. Short term contrarian model looking for unsubstantiated movement in low cap stocks.


Richard K Tahta Macro

Richard K Tahta

Risk Score: 1

Fees: 0.75% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 5.09

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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Takes a macro view of economic change, that he periodically reviews, buying ETFs as a diversified and cheap mechanism to take advantage. His current view is that with governments printing money interest rates will rise, and that with the continued underlying growth of the middle classes in industrialized nations that the price of basic commodities will also rise. Long term ETF only buy and hold model looking to take advantage of economic trends.


Yinglan Tan Special Situations

Yinglan Tan

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 6.33

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He invests in the top venture-backed equities with predictable earnings and long-term growth. He is the author of "The Way of the VC - Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board". He has an M.S. from Stanford and is a J.F.K. Fellow from Harvard. He currently lives in Singapore.


Ben Wong Opportunistic

Ben Wong

Risk Score: 2

Fees: 1.10% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 9.67

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He invests in anticipation of good news and new product launches, focusing 30%-40% of the portfolio in the technology sector. He uses both fundamental and technical analysis, holding between 5 and 10 positions. He is enlisted in the US Military as a technician focusing on radios and satellites.


Norimasa Yoshida Growth

Norimasa Yoshida

Risk Score: 3

Fees: 1.50% of invested assets p.a.

Trades per month: 0.00

Subscription Minimum^: $5,000.00

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He uses a long-term approach, focusing primarily on fundamentals and secondarily on market-timing.  He looks for trigger points to narrow his universe of securities and then reads SEC filings to determine intrinsic value.  He pays close attention to minimizing transaction costs and maximizing tax efficiency.


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