SIF Folio: T Clarke and Ashmore compete for my cash

In my recent piece looking at the SIF portfolio’s biggest losers, I found that three out of the nine businesses I looked at were contracting or construction-type businesses.
That seems more than a coincidence to me, and many of you suggested that I sho…

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Small Cap Value Report (Tue 14 May 2019) – SDRY, GRG, CML, OTB, IDEA

Good morning, it’s Paul here!
Here is a catch-up section, before I look at today’s news.

Superdry (LON:SDRY)
Share price: 447pNo. shares: 82.0mMarket cap: £366.5m
Pre-close trading statement
A reader asked me to comment on this most recent trading up…

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Small Cap Value Report (Tue 14 May 2019) – SDRY, GRG, CML, OTB

Good morning, it’s Paul here!
Here is a catch-up section, before I look at today’s news.

£SDRY 
Share price: 447pNo. shares: 82.0mMarket cap: £366.5m
Pre-close trading statement
A reader asked me to comment on this most recent trading update from 9 Ma…

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A guide to investing in South African stock markets

In 2013 Jim O’Neill, the Goldman Sachs economist best known for coining the term ‘BRIC’,  noted that ‘one popular idea has been to suggest that BRICs should in fact be BRICS, with the capital S for South Africa. Some commentators believe South Africa i…

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Effects of Factor Crowding [PREMIUM]

Does crowding of factor investing strategies reliably predict returns for those strategies? In his March 2019 paper entitled “The Impact of Crowding in Alternative Risk Premia Investing”, Nick Baltas explores mechanics of alternative risk (…

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Effects of Factor Crowding [PREMIUM]

Does crowding of factor investing strategies reliably predict returns for those strategies? In his March 2019 paper entitled “The Impact of Crowding in Alternative Risk Premia Investing”, Nick Baltas explores mechanics of alternative risk (…

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Small Cap Value Report (Mon 13 May 2019) – ANG, WEY

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
Right, let’s get this show back on the road.
Today, I’ll be looking at;
Angling Direct (LON:ANG) results
Wey Education (LON:WEY) interims
Anything else of interest.

I’m putting the finishing touches to Friday’s late rep…

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Small Cap Value Report (Fri 10 May 2019) – CTO, PTSG

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
The good news is that I’m finally starting to get over quite literally the worst flu/chest infection of my life. It’s been absolutely horrendous – I’ve been bed-ridden for 22+ hours per day, for the last fortnight. It felt…

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Small Cap Value Report (Fri 10 May 2019) –

Good morning, it’s Paul here.
The good news is that I’m finally starting to get over quite literally the worst flu/chest infection of my life. It’s been absolutely horrendous – I’ve been bed-ridden for 22+ hours per day, for the last fortnight. It felt…

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The new StockRanks Portal is now LIVE

Thanks to everyone who listened into the webinar just now – this is a quick announcement to say the StockRanks tab is now live… please have a look in the main site navigation bar where you’ll see a ‘ranks’ tab… there’s a super StockRank browser, a…

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Small Cap Report: WGB, JPR, TNI, TRI, NXR, STOB, RGD

Good morning. Apologies for slightly erratic service lately, should be OK to do a report every day for the rest of this week hopefully. I hold shares in Walker Greenbank (LON:WGB), a luxury interior furnishings group that looks a good value situation t…

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What is a momentum crash and why does it happen ?

It’s quite a daft premise really but, in general, constructing a portfolio full of stocks that have risen the most over the previous year or so gives you the highest probability of making a profit in the coming months. Between the end of WWII and 2008…

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Small Cap Value Report (13 June 2017) – PKG, IOM, CML

Good morning,
Paul is a bit busy at the moment, so you’re stuck with me a little longer.
Cheers
Graham

Park (LON:PKG)
Share price: 78.5p (-4%)No. of shares: 184.4 millionMarket Cap: £145 millionFinal Results
Steady progress at Park Group, a major gif…

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How to use sector diversification to manage risk

I’ve interviewed some well known investors and fund managers this year, and they’ve all divulged interesting investment approaches. Each has had strong personal views on investment styles, ranging from small-cap growth to large cap value. But one area …

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How to use sector diversification to manage risk

I’ve interviewed some well known investors and fund managers this year, and they’ve all divulged interesting investment approaches. Each has had strong personal views on investment styles, ranging from small-cap growth to large cap value. But one area …

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Weekly Summary of Research Findings: 5/6/19 – 5/10/19 [PREMIUM]

Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 5/6/19 through 5/10/19. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To receive …

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HYP #4 – How to buy and hold High Yield Stocks tax free

This is part 4 in the Stockopedia High Yield Portfolio series by Stephen Bland (HYP).    Last week I considered the desirability of certain types of investment for a UK based HYPer in addition to the usual home market equities. This week I’ll explore t…

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Inflation Forecast Update

The Inflation Forecast now incorporates actual total and core Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for April 2019. The actual total (core) inflation rate for March is higher than (the same as) forecasted.
The post Inflation Forecast Update appeared first on…

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Automation Bias Among Individual Investors

Who do investors trust more, expert advisors or algorithms? In her March 2019 paper entitled “Algorithmic Decision-Making: The Death of Second Opinions?”, Nizan Packin employs a survey conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk to assess automatio…

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Small Cap Value Report (Fri 10 May 2019) – placeholder

Good morning, it’s Paul here.The good news is that I’m finally starting to get over quite literally the worst flu/chest infection of my life. It’s been absolutely horrendous – I’ve been bed-ridden for 22+ hours per day, for the last fortnight. It felt …

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Small Cap Value Report (25 Jun) – LOQ, PLA, KBT, IOF, TRI, BYOT, ACM

Good morning. It looks like we should get some respite today from the considerable market falls in the last month, triggered by the Fed saying they would be looking to wind down QE. There was another big rally in the US markets last night, although as …

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GAME Digital: experiential bets and existential threats

A couple of days ago, GAME Digital popped up on the StockRanks Movers page:
This one’s an interesting candidate to look into as it’s been covered in depth by both Paul and Graham in the small-cap report. The story is certainly intriguing: a cash-backed…

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How does the Dividend Discount Model value stocks?

“A cow for her milk. A hen for her eggs, And a stock, by heck, For her dividends” (John Burr Willams) 
As valuation techniques go, the dividend discount model (“DDM”) is basically a more conservative cousin of discounted cash flow analysis.
It is to be…

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StockRanks – upgrades and downgrades – June 10th

A wealth of academic and guru literature advocates that stocks which rank well in terms of quality, value and momentum (QVM) tend to beat the market. Indeed, Stockopedia’s mantra is that good, cheap, improving stocks generally outperform expensive, det…

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