Andy's Two Cents

Notes and thoughts from our director.

Financial Markets and World Wars

November 17, 2015 How do major geopolitical disasters and acts of violence play into the world’s financial markets? Does every act of terrorism, like most recently in Paris, make significant dents to the markets and investors? Each war from the World Wars to the Cold War have taught investors very different lessons. The important thing […]

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The World of Amazon

October 20, 2015 When you decide to go the focused-investor route one of the necessary components to your job is to thoroughly research companies and act as though you are buying them entirely, just like a Warren Buffett type. Lately this company has been on my mind, so let’s take a moment to examine one […]

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Carl Icahn Warns of Danger Ahead

September 29, 2015 Every morning our firm sits together and has “coffee talk”, where we basically sip strong Louisiana coffee and go over topics of interest. Occasionally we talk about what dinner we plan on cooking that night, it’s a nice distraction from the recent gloom and doom of our industry. This morning we discussed […]

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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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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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