by Colin Symons, CFA | May 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Much has happened over the last three months that has had me regularly shaking my head. I’ve talked about how ignorance has been bliss with tech companies, but it’s also happened elsewhere. For instance, in the last week a number of retail REITs have given...
by Colin Symons, CFA | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
An investor asked an important question on our April 28 quarterly conference call: How can anyone have a rigorous investment process when there are so many unknowns out there? I think that’s a very complicated question, and I want to go through it in more detail...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Apr 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
This blog is a bit longer than usual, but a lot happened in the first quarter. We started the year with a big party in tech, but around the middle of February people started getting nervous, presumably about Covid-19. Then in early March we saw panic across all asset...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Mar 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
I last wrote a blog six days ago, on March 12. Now, at March 18, we can more clearly see some important facets of the current financial stresses. First I will outline some of those stresses, and then I will discuss what I think may unfold over the rest of 2020. We...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
We want to tell you what we are seeing, and what we are thinking. This will be an overview, and we likely will follow up with additional communications as matters evolve. We have a core investment process we have built, and believe in, to help us manage assets in all...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Feb 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
There’s quite a lot going on in the financial markets and in the world – so much that I don’t think I can go into great detail. But here are some highlights: On the one hand we have the biggest mix of potential market-impact problems I have seen in...
