Jeff Schrull, CEO of Rialto Energy, interviewed by Drake Lawhead from the Oil Council.This interview appeared first in the April 2012 issue of Drillers and Dealers, the magazine of the Oil Council.DL: ...

Andy Morrison, CEO, Silvermere Energy interviewed by Drake Lawhead from the Oil Council.This interview appeared in the April 2012 issue of Drillers and Dealers - the magazine of the Oil Council.DL: Tell ...

There has been a range of intelligent analytical opinions recently espoused, seeking to explain the action in the gold price this last six months. Whilst we have found articulations focused on consolidation ...

Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's annual sessions at the Berkshire Hathaway AGM are, of course, legendary. It's because they are so filled with pearls of investment wisdom that such hordes make the trek ...

FTSE 100 telecoms giant Vodafone (LON:VOD) this week swooped on Cable & Wireless Worldwide (LON:CW.) in a £1.04 billion deal that now seems likely to bring a modestly priced end to a particularly miserable ...

China has been trying to diversify her foreign exchange reserves for some time. We are all familiar with the figures released by the likes of the World Gold Council about Chinese gold investment demand, ...

There is nothing like a seasonal pattern to rankle analysts, unsettle investors and get behavioural finance experts foaming at the mouth. Investors have various levels of expectation about the influence ...

British economist John Maynard Keynes referred to gold as the “Barbarous relic”; billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros described it as the “Ultimate Bubble”, and even the Sage of Omaha Warren Buffett ...

For those of us with an eye for an bargain, London markets were a happy hunting ground during the first three months of 2012 – with the value hunting strategies of legendary investor Benjamin Graham proving ...

With more and more of us ploughing our hard-earned cash into ISAs each year, the subject of how that money is put to use over the long term has become critically important. With cash funds offering lacklustre ...

Selling software to the financial services sector was a pretty brutal market for any business to be in during the dark years of the economic slump – as investors in AIM quoted Corero Network Security (LON:CNS) ...

We’re all feeling the pain of high petrol and diesel costs at the moment with prices at the pump hitting more than 150p per litre in some places.  I know that some investors like to hedge their bets and ...

With company earnings season in full swing and London markets displaying signs of improving confidence, we thought we’d share the impressive performance of one of our Momentum screens, which tracks those ...

It’s time I got back to the task of building up my portfolio of small-cap, low debt, deep value investments.  This week the target is Promethean World (LON:PRW), a company which makes interactive and collaborative ...

First published on February 18th 2012When I added the Japanese stock market to the NEONOMIC stock finder I was immediately faced with a huge number of new companies that appeared to be undervalued. It ...

Silver is a much smaller market than the gold market and quality research about the poor man’s gold can be less easy to find. One academic who does stand out though is the late Professor Roy Jastram, whose ...

HSBC has taken a bit of a beating over the past few years just like all the other banks, but I think this one has done a solid job of steering through the crisis. Earnings and dividends may be down substantially ...

In a previous post I had a quick look at Dart Group PLC. An initial glance at the company suggested that a very defensive balance sheet that generated reasonable returns lay behind a very low valuation.To ...

We thought we’d spend some time discussing one of the most obscure screens amongst the Quality stock screen category, R&D Breakthroughs Screen. It’s a stock selection strategy that seeks to match up companies ...

There are lots of different ways to be a value investor. When I’m investing in large companies I look for stability and strength above all, followed by the potential for growth and a low price, of course; ...

There was an interesting piece by Professor George Selgin in last week’s CityAM forum. In his analysis he articulately describes why the Great Depression should not be blamed on the Gold Standard, but ...

Crucial to any successful investment process is having a good "search" or "origination" strategy, i.e. ensuring that you are constantly seeing a good "funnel" of investment ...

In BriefTiny Titans is a small/micro-cap strategy developed by O'Shaugnessy in his 2006 book, "Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow". It looks for cheap small caps with upward price momentum.BackgroundJames ...

With Facebook having finally announced plans for its long anticipated IPO this spring, speculation is already rife about the social network’s likely gigantic valuation and how the shares will go on to ...

When it comes to buying stocks, few investors would dispute that finding a bargain is a seductive prospect. But while most investors are looking for an attractive price, some bargain – or deep value – ...

For many investors, the task of scouring the market for companies that look poised for rapid growth is the holy grail of stock selection. The stocks chosen by growth investors boast an air of anticipation ...

In spite of a dozen years of sideways markets that have just about ground the philosophy of buy and hold into the dust, Warren Buffett's purchase decisions are still able to turn a thousand heads. Investors ...

With the recent news of his investment in Tesco (LON:TSCO), we thought we'd take a look this week at a Warren Buffett stock screen using the Stockopedia Pro data-set. Buffett's approach is a highly fundamentals-focused ...

Tesco (LON:TSCO) is the largest supermarket in the UK with over 2,000 stores here and around half a million staff worldwide.  It’s a monster.  It’s the dominant player in a recession-proof industry and ...

Last post I outlined three stocks I thought were interesting to look at because of the UK question - the problems in valuing a group as a whole when different parts within that group are performing so ...

When it comes to investing strategies, the “buy low, sell high” mantra of value investors is the approach best known to those scrutinising the market for attractive potential returns. However, a closer ...

Is the trend really your friend? It seem so ridiculous that just because a price is going up that it should continue to go up, but that's precisely what has been observed in the price behaviour of stocks. ...

Forbidden Technologies (LON:FBT), the AIM listed company behind the Cloud-based video platform FORscene, saw its shares rise by 4% to 37.5p today on news that double digit sales growth during 2011 had ...