Nicholas Vardy
The Global Guru: Is This the Top Investment Strategy of All Time?
The financial crash of 2008 shook much of the financial world, and many of its investment models, to their core. This includes the much-vaunted “Yale model” of endowment investing that still guides the investment strategies of the top universities in the world. For a period of more than 20 years stretching back into the mid […]
“Tis the Season For Emerging Markets”
It was a slow week for U.S. markets with the Dow Jones Industrial average up 0.99%, and the S&P 500 essentially flat, rising 0.13%. Thanks largely to the sharp sell-off in Apple, the NASDAQ was down 1.07%. In contrast, the MCSI Emerging Markets Index was up 2.39%, confirming the start of what is always the […]
A Contrarian Bet on a Mortgage REIT with a 15.6% Yield
This week’s Dividend Pro recommendation, Apollo Residential Mortgage Inc. (AMTG), is a contrarian bet on yet another high-yielding mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT). Similar to your other mortgage REIT holdings like Two Harbors Investment Corp. (TWO) and Annaly Capital Management (NLY), AMTG invests in, finances and manages residential mortgage loans, and other residential mortgage assets in […]
Recent Global Bets Are Paying off
It was a quiet week for U.S. stock markets, with the S&P 500 rising 0.58% and the NASDAQ up 0.97%. But as is often the case in Q4, emerging markets are starting to outperform developed markets as the MCSI Emerging Markets Index rose 1.48%. The biggest gainers in your portfolio were global positions and include […]
The Global Guru: The #1 Performing Asset Class of 2012
In many ways, it was the bursting of the U.S. real estate market that drove the global economy into the “Great Recession.” And having been burned badly by the collapse in real estate prices, most investors have avoided U.S. real estate like the plague. But, as is often the case in the investment world, going […]
Betting on Bullish India
It was relatively quiet for stock markets last week, with the Dow Jones up 0.12%, and the S&P 500 rising 0.50%. The MCSI Emerging Markets Index rose 0.38%.The biggest gainer in your Bull Market Alert portfolio was 3D-printing sensation Stratasys (SSYS), which you sold last Wednesday for a 25.19% gain in the stock, and a 170.37% gain in […]