by admin | Sep 2, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
A few weeks ago I began monitoring traffic on the blog. And while I can’t tell who is logging in, I can tell where they’re connecting from. And so far we’ve been accessed from at least 23 countries: United States, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Canada,...
by admin | Sep 1, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
“Financial crisis of past year offers many lessons,” reads the CFA Institute’s lead story in today’s e-mail news brief. The story is from The Wall Street Journal and points out how “we are nearly six months into one of the most impressive...
by admin | Aug 30, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
This morning, while driving to the store, I happened to catch Rev.DeForest “Buster” Soaries preaching on the radio. Buster is the pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ. I know Buster and have heard him preach, both in person and...
by admin | Aug 29, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
A few years back someone began a website, investment-performance.com, to provide a variety of services, including a way to get questions answered. They asked me, along with a few others, to serve as moderators. And periodically I’d offer comments.Well, earlier...
by admin | Aug 24, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen many indicators of a turnaround for the economy at large and the market in specific. The very wide and dynamic intraday shifts in the DJIA, for example, seem to have dissipated, and bad news doesn’t cause the market to...
by admin | Aug 15, 2009 | Investment Performance Guy, News
Happy the man who meditates on wisdom,and reflects on knowledge.Sirach 15: 20.When we learned of the Madoff fraud, we knew that he couldn’t have pulled it off singlehandedly; he had to have coconspirators. And this week we learned of one, who had been with him a...