December 21, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
Charles Sizemore, the winner of InvestorPlace’s “10 Stocks for 2011″ contest, offers his favorite stock for 2012. Read about Charles’ pick and the other contestants below. Wondering what the best stocks to buy for next year are? Well, look no further than the 10 Best Stocks for 2012. This InvestorPlace feature lists 10 long-term investments [...]
December 1, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
Sometimes it is really hard to believe that Wall Street is run by serious, highly-educated professionals. You wouldn’t hear a doctor use a ludicrous expression like “Santa Claus Rally.” You wouldn’t take an accountant seriously if you heard them utter pithy nonsense like “Don’t frown, average down” or “Buy on the rumor, sell on the [...]
November 24, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
The art of investing is an exercise in making decisions under conditions of uncertainty. But today, it seems that the cloud of uncertainty is a little thicker than usual. During times like these, I like to do what your college professor might have called “cheating.” I like to look over the shoulders of other investors and see what they are doing.
November 17, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
Lest I be accused of hero worship, I’ll spare readers another Warren Buffett lovefest article. Yes, Buffett is a living legend, and yes, he is arguably the best investor of all time. But these facts are nothing new, and there have already been more articles than I can count written about the man and his [...]
July 13, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
One of the oft-cited reasons for investing in commodities is that they have historical returns comparable to stocks while having a low correlation to the stock market. The problem is that this statement is patently false.
July 6, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
The Sizemore Investment Letter, is committed to avoiding these kinds of behavioral traps by focusing on macro trends with staying power.
June 14, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
In the interconnected web of the global economy, the rise of China has been one of the biggest drivers of the decade-long bull market in energy and commodities. But China is also making its presence felt in other less obvious areas of the economy. Yes, it would appear that affluent Chinese are driving a global [...]
May 23, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
We’ve always admired Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett. He is, after all, the most successful investor in history and a legend in his own time. Mr. Buffett’s annual reports are fountains of investment wisdom that should be required reading in business schools and for everyone in the money management profession. We’ve also had an admiration [...]
May 17, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
The Sizemore Investment Letter’s Charles Sizemore discusses dividend investing live on Fox Business News.
May 16, 2011
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Posted by: Charles Lewis Sizemore, CFA
In January, the world watched in shock as a 26-year-old Tunisian fruit vendor lit himself on fire to protest the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and sparked a revolution that spread across the Middle East like wildfire—today even threatening governments thought to be untouchable, like the Baathist Assad Regime in Syria. Shortly after the [...]