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Within the broadest context, strategy is the long-term action plan for achieving investment goals.
Investment strategy is the adaptation to change. At WALT ST we monitor client circumstances, investment return prospects and market risks managing portfolios to accommodate change.
Investment strategies have been around for as long as you have had financial markets and they show remarkable longevity. The same strategies are recycled with each generation of investors and presented as new and different by their proponents. The strategies all play into human emotion and that is what makes them so compelling; some strategies appeal to the fearful (risk averse), others the hopeful and still other to the greedy. Each strategy has theoretical foundations and evidence on its effectiveness (or lack thereof) and potential weaknesses.
1. High Dividend Stocks: Bonds with Price appreciation?
2. This stock is so cheap! The Low PE Strategy
3. Less than Book Value, What a bargain?
4. Stable Earnings, Better Investment?
5. In search of excellence: Are good companies good investments?
6. Grow, baby, grow: The Growth Story
7. The Worst is behind you: The Contrarian Story
8. The Next Big Thing: New businesses and young companies
9. Mergers and Returns: The Acquisitive Company
10. A Sure Thing: The Allure of Arbitrage
11. Its all upside: The Momentum Story
12. Follow the experts
13. Indexing . . .In the long term… a rising river lifts all boats . . . Myths about Markets
14. Ready to Give Up? The Allure of Indexing
We have studied and considered each of these strategies and derived a guiding philosophy. This philosophy leads to the strategy and tactics that we utilize everyday in managing the portfolios entrusted to us.
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