Seeking Blue Revisit

We developed an investment thesis based on the discounted cash flow valuations of some of the most credit worthy companies in the S&P 500.  All of them blue chips, trading at substantial…


S&P 500 Target 1818

This is a revisit of an article I posted on 9-12-2012.  At the time I wrote "with a 2% 10 year risk free Treasury interest rate, the market is just way too low based on one popular measure of…


Market moving events this week and there's a lot of them

Tuesday's consumer confidence number will hardly matter in this Goldilocks's market.  Gloomier outlook will just mean more QE.  A pick up in sentiment might lead credence that there is some kind of…


Anecdotal evidence and an update on Edwards Lifescience

I went on a UCLA school tour last Thursday.  It was striking for a couple of reasons.  For starters UCLA has the largest applicant freshman class of any university in the nation.  I did not now that.…


More than halfway thru earnings season- insiders maintain boycott

We're more than halfway through earning's season and still insiders largely maintain their boycott of buying.  Insiders continue to unload their company's stock on the public even as stock prices…


Twitter hack crashes S&P 500

The S&P futures market lost 15 points in seconds and then regained it.  Obviously a fat finger or computer glitch. Nope, it was the hacked Twitter AP account reporting on a false attack on the…


Three high yielders we like- all with insider buying

KKR FINANCIAL HOLDINGS LLC (NYSE: KFN) is a New York Stock Exchange-listed specialty finance company with expertise in a range of asset classes. KFN’s core business strategy is to leverage the…


Earnings Season Beat Rate Is Low - Business Insider

CHART OF THE DAY: Earnings Season Is Off To An Ugly Start Through Friday, 104 companies (33% of the market cap) of the S&P 500 have announced there Q1 2013 financial results. While it's still…


Park Record Article on the Fund

The Park Record ran an article 4-20-2013 titled "Local hedge fund offers investment workshops".  Here is a pdf version of this article.  Please note that the next dates for our workshops in Park City…


Demand for Oil Could Peak Well Before Production Does - Barrons.com

Oil Could Face "Peak" DemandBy DAN STRUMPF The theory, popularized in the past decade, said global crude-oil production would eventually reach its zenith and oil prices would have only one way to go:…