Andy's Two Cents

Notes and thoughts from our director.

How a Fed Rate Hike could be Good for Stocks

September 16, 2015 Wells Fargo Securities Equity Strategist Gina Martin Adams discusses Fed policy her outlook for stocks. She speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg) Gina and our firm believe the fed rate increase could be very positive for equities, mostly due to uncertainty being removed which has been one of the focal discussions plaguing […]

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Our Investment Philosophy

September 9, 2015 The following principles guide how we invest our clients’ (and our own) assets. We concentrate in our best ideas. We believe common sense requires that you invest in your best investment ideas. Although this approach generally results in investment performance that is out-of-step with the broad market, we believe it should result […]

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Gypsy fish of the Great Atlantic Ocean

August 26, 2015 Jesse Livermore is one of the great traders of our time, yet few people know about him. He was nicknamed the “Speculator King” and began his journey into substantial wealth at the young age of 15 in the bucket shops of New York City. At his peak in 1929, Livermore was worth […]

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Are you a “Know-Something” Investor?

August 10, 2015 Tren Griffin is the senior director of strategy at Microsoft corp. during the day, but in his spare time he transforms into a voracious writer and reader about business and investing. As of September he will be publishing a new book focusing on the ideas and practices of Berkshire Hathaway’s very own […]

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How the Fear & Greed Index Works

July 28, 2015 As Warren Buffett famously says “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful”. This is the guiding premise behind behavioral finance. As much as the stock market is made up of trading algorithms and valuation ratios, it is also highly sensitive to investor sentiment aka “irrational emotion”. If […]

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Mobileye has a monopoly on Driverless Technology

Ron Baron, Baron Capital Chairman & CEO, is intrigued by Mobileye’s data collection on driving. Click here to watch CNBC video discussing this very real driving technology. http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000389368 “When there’s a tilt in the road, these guys will know it.” Mobileye is already working on the next evolution DAS technology – the autonomous driving – […]

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Baton Rouge Business Report’s Best Advice with Andy Anderson

B.F. “Andy” Anderson President, senior portfolio manager B.F. Anderson Private Portfolio Management Age: 60 “My parents moved to Baton Rouge in the early 1930s from Colorado Springs, Colorado, and they fell in love with the people and lifestyle offered to them. My mother used to say you could not drag her out of Baton Rouge […]

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The Retirement Rip-Off

Are you currently working for an employer that offers a 401k plan to you and co-workers? Let me start off by saying that 401k plans, at least on paper, can be a fair deal. It allows you to automatically pull money each paycheck and deposit into a tax-deferred account that will hopefully grow for decades […]

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Dividends: The Yield Trade Off

Dividend cash is sent to the shareholder, this is called “mailbox money”. Companies that have a dividend payout have little to no growth. Companies that have high dividend yields typically have high debt. In the last 80 years (William O’Neil study), you missed out on the best stocks if all you cared about was a […]

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Going from Ape to Human

Were you aware that the legendary Warren Buffett may not be in a position of substantial wealth and influence had it not been for his friend and business partner Charlie Munger? Throughout Warren’s younger professional life as an investor he studied the teachings of the king of value investing and the author of The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham. Graham’s value […]

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