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James Simons is forecasting volatility ahead

James Simons is forecasting volatility ahead

Posted by | Feb 9, 2018 |

James Simons former military Cold War I code-breakerand founder of quantitative h edge fund Renaissance is signaling volatility ahead. James Simons sees a significant risk of “a correction” in prices, the quantitative trader is forecasting volatility ahead. Indeed, with a sea of red on the screen, it would be comforting to call early February’s rout (selloff) in stocks as a well overdue correction, after all, the healthy long-term bull market corrects itself with small short-term bear markets. But calling this recent sell-off in risk assets a correction would be the best case scenario. If investors lose their nerve, crack...

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Benjamin Graham – Investor Profile

Benjamin Graham – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 4, 2018 |

Benjamin Graham (1894, London, United Kingdom September 21, 1976) was a British-born American investor, economist, and professor. Benjamin Graham is known as the “father of value investing”. His ideas on investing have influenced the likes of contemporary legend investor Warren Buffett who described Graham as the second most influential person in his life after his own father. Benjamin Graham wrote two of the first texts in neoclassical investing: Security Analysis (1934) with David Dodd, and The Intelligent Investor (1949). Graham, born to Jewish parents, moved to New York City from London at the age of one. His father died...

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Matt Whineray – Investor Profile

Matt Whineray – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 4, 2018 |

Matt Whineray is the Chief Investment Officer of NZ Super Fund which manages New Zealand’s $25 billion Superannuation Fund (personal retirement fund). Matt Whineray has held a series of senior roles at the Guardians since joining the organization in 2008 as the General Manager Private Markets. As CIO he manages a team of 35 investment professionals with responsibility for asset allocation, public and private market investments globally and in New Zealand. He oversees that the fund is making responsible investment and he is also in charge of appointing of external money managers. Matt Whineray was formerly Head of Financial...

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David Dreman – Investor Profile

David Dreman – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 3, 2018 |

David Dreman (1939, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a noted value contrarian investor. Dreman has been at the cutting edge of research into contrarian investing for over three decades, he is also the founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Dreman Value Management, an investment company. Dreman graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1958. His background is in finance, Dreman’s father, Joseph Dreman was a prominent trader on the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange for many years. David Dreman commenced his career in finance. After Dreman graduated he worked as director of research for Rauscher Pierce, then as a senior investment...

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Philip Fisher – Investor Profile

Philip Fisher – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 2, 2018 |

Philip Fisher (September 8, 1907 – March 11, 2004) is best known as the author of Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, a guide to investing The book in now an investors’ classic and continues to remain in print ever since it was first published in 1958. Philip Fisher began his investment career in 1928 when he dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business (in a bizarre twist he would later return to teach the investment course). He started working as a securities analyst with the Anglo-London Bank in San Francisco. He would then switched to a stock exchange...

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