Month: June 2007

BlackStone IPO may Be Delayed by Taxman

Waxman and Rangel are at it again….According to a news release on Reuters; “New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel, chairman of the powerful tax-writing panel, said, “We believe it is imperative that Ways and Means … conduct a hearing on the important issues surrounding private equity, carried interest and publicly...

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Intelligent Business with COGN

Cognos (COGN) is in a place of interest. They look to find information through mining data on all aspects of a company’s business. Their products provides coverage for production and business reporting, dashboarding, query, analysis, metrics management and interactive scorecarding, event management and data management on a services-oriented architecture. The...

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Quant Investing Primer

From Chapter 2 – Quantitative Investing – The Disciplined Investor

(starting on page 29)

“Momentum Earnings Up

You will undoubtedly find many stocks that you have probably never heard of within these results. Caveat emptor! Try not to let yourself get sucked into the temptation of following the historic returns. Be sure to...

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Letter to Crox Shareholders from the PCEO

If I were the CEO and Director of Crocs (CROX) this is the letter I think I would write to all of my shareholders:

Dear Crockers:

I was so happy for all of the directors and shareholders as I have seen so many making millions as the share price of Crocs moved...

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