kcowan wrote:I notice that ROM.TO has an opening price of $14.80 for the longs and $14.95 for the shorts. Is there something I don't understand?
I'm guessing you're referring to RIM.
Norbert Schlenker wrote:Peter gets a 1% bonus for the name Fund 51.
May I note, in passing, that my hedge fund is in the second half of the table, but I'm currently getting the best long entry: BAC +72.7 %. Of course, the shorts are killing me.
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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” [Richard P. Feynman, Nobel prize winner]
I have the honour of selecting 2 of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Fortune for 2011:
13 Lulu
16 SLW 100 fastest growing companies worldwide in 2011
Had I selected them correclty, I would be scoring in contention for the leadership in 2012 with an overall currently of 37.8 good for second place.
Luckily I only hold one of these picks (Lulu). I am interested in whether anyone else actually holds/held their picks here?
kcowan wrote:I have the honour of selecting 2 of Canada's fastest growing companies according to Fortune for 2011:
13 Lulu
16 SLW 100 fastest growing companies worldwide in 2011
Had I selected them correclty, I would be scoring in contention for the leadership in 2012 with an overall currently of 37.8 good for second place.
Luckily I only hold one of these picks (Lulu). I am interested in whether anyone else actually holds/held their picks here?
Certainly not.
The only individual shares I own are 150 Cisco. (I can't remember why I bought them, but they're no longer worth enough to bother selling them.)
I have other commitments this evening, as it's New Years Eve, so my plan is to vet everything and produce a final final during some televised bowl game tomorrow.
Happy New Year to all.
Nothing can protect people who want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.
I hold both GIL and ECA as part of a misguided attempt to not pay fees for a Canadian index and to avoid some of the financial/resources weight in the index. I shorted ABX and RIM in the hedge fund competition but don't short for real and don't own either.
I shorted RIM because I think it's unlikely it will survive, and ABX because of a feeling gold is overvalued and mining (the process) will be unpopular and/or difficult (labor wise), not based any real insights. My pick of GIL for the hedge fund competition was based largely on comments from CIBC a bit more than a year ago, when the company was really down after some issues with cotton prices. I have ca. 15 individual Canadian stocks plus XGD (small amount from my first asset allocation, now down to something like 0.5%) , XIC, XIU. The individual stocks include TLM and SU, which I picked for long in the 2013 hedge fund competition.
I'll have to decide whether to buy more individual Canadian stocks or just buy the index going forward but it's not a big issue this year, most new money will go into US and international index funds. If I do buy new Canadian stocks they'll be in the top ten of XIU that I don't have yet. In addition to avoiding index fees I also had/have a faint inclination towards value tilt and at least for a while a very low tax rate for dividends in the particular account that holds them.
I'll nominate myself for an honourable mention since my long picks (Citigroup and Bank of America) went up the most (74%). The rationale for picking them was very contrarian in spirit, since (almost) everybody hated the big American banks, and praised quite similar entities north of the border. I kept them for this year's long picks, both here and at Bogleheads.
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“It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.” [Richard P. Feynman, Nobel prize winner]
adrian2 wrote:I'll nominate myself for an honourable mention since my long picks (Citigroup and Bank of America) went up the most (74%). The rationale for picking them was very contrarian in spirit, since (almost) everybody hated the big American banks, and praised quite similar entities north of the border. I kept them for this year's long picks, both here and at Bogleheads.
I also got a kick out of your shorts Adrian2.
You can't pick a loser even when you try... hehehe