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• Best Stocks to Sell Short (Part 2) - Editor, 26 November 2007 - No Comments yet

Best Stocks to Sell Short (Part 1)

Market Share Losses Predict Stock Price Decline

Emotional intelligence led stock trading is not the sole route to short selling success. Market share trends can reflect future stock value as well as a blood pressure measure can speak volume for state of physical health. You will be surprised at how much the best management consultancies are willing to pay for syndicated or even custom retail store audits.

• Why Target Retirement Funds Cannot Substitute Stocks (Part 1) - Editor, 23 November 2007 - No Comments yet

How many current advisors about stocks and investments will be around in 2030, to say nothing of 2045? Why are these distant lights in the horizon of eternity significant? There are two reasons: firstly, many of us are scheduled to retire around these periods. Secondly, some of the most popular target retirement funds that seek to take resources away from individual stocks are set to mature during these years.

• Why Target Retirement Funds Cannot Substitute Stocks (Part 2) - Editor, 23 November 2007 - No Comments yet

Why Target Retirement Funds Cannot Substitute Stocks (Part 1)

Stocks and Discontinuities

Stocks are versatile as instruments of accumulating financial powers. Risk is inherent in their ownerships, but the hazards can be managed as well by individual domain experts, as by general whiz kids! Stocks require daily attention on all working days, but the potential benefits are at least as significant as any other daily chore. Liquidity is an important dimension of stocks, allowing us to make rapid adjustments to shifting realities.

• Why Organic is better for Stocks (Part 1) - Editor, 22 November 2007 - No Comments yet

Please do not hit your mouse! This is not about the green movement, but about how stocks can provide better returns through sound internal growth, as opposed to extravagant acquisitions and abdicated mergers. Purchase and sales of entire companies and lines of business are relatively new trends, regardless of their meteoritic rises to popularity amongst some circles of executives and owners of stocks. Contrast how the Chinese now control Lenovo stocks, while even a person other than a Watson could not even think of running IBM just a few decades ago! We could soon witness similar developments with respect to some of the most revered names in the automobile industry.

• Why Organic is better for Stocks (Part 2) - Editor, 22 November 2007 - No Comments yet

Why Organic is better for Stocks (Part 1)

Organic Alternatives for Growth and Appreciation of Stocks

Terminally ill stocks are fortunately as rare as people for who doctors can do nothing, and criminals without attorneys. Management processes can detect decline early enough for professionals to take corrective actions. The job and tax angles of industrial and commercial organizations mean that politicians and administrators are generally willing to listen actively to suggestions from employers about how statutory matters can be shaped to help corporations.

• Stocks of Professional Marketers (Part 1) - Editor, 21 November 2007 - No Comments yet

Why is it that investors think about finance and technology, more than about marketing, when making decisions about stocks? Some of this misplaced bias may be due to accounting norms. Advertising is not treated as an investment by accountants, though the best campaigns may support stocks for decades! Expenses in servicing customers may even be disallowed as deductibles in some tax regimes. Even Human Resources Management professionals are not above advocating their professional roles, leaving marketing generally marginalized. Do investors take this function for granted because its contributions are intangible-at least on financial statements? Are stocks undervalued because brands are not part of such exercises?

• Stocks of Professional Marketers (Part 2) - Editor, 21 November 2007 - No Comments yet

Stocks of Professional Marketers (Part 1)

Branding is a complex process and it stands in shifting sands. Customer research, competitive intelligence, product presentation, pricing, and channels of distribution, are just some of the hurdles which marketing professionals must negotiate, before they can expect any branding impact. It is not as though resources for these wars are unlimited, because branding investments have 100% depreciation, and must fit in with the revenues of each calendar year. Truthfully, investors should allow firms to make losses in order to attain high future values for their stocks, but how often do we hear such talk in financial circles?

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