Toss your stock-investing assumptions Bill Gross says

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- Toss your stock-investing assumptions Bill Gross says
- Research and Markets: Wall Street’s Buried Treasure: The Low …
- Recessions Are Perfect for Currency Investing
- ProFunds Group Names Todd Johnson Chief Investment Officer

Toss your stock-investing assumptions Bill Gross says
Los Angeles Times CA 
So says Bill Gross noted bond guru at Pacific Investment Management Co. Perhaps not surprisingly Gross argues that it?s ?better to own corporate bonds than corporate stocks.

Research and Markets: Wall Street’s Buried Treasure: The Low …
MarketWatch 
He makes the critical distinction between penny stocks and serious opportunities available to the low-priced value investor using important examples of his own methodology. Along the way Houtkin provides valuable insight into some of the inner workings of Wall Street. ” BILL KRAFT trader speaker trading coach and author of Trade Your Way to Wealth “Investing without Wall Street’s Buried Treasure is like trying to live without food. Houtkin provides the facts of survival one needs to make money in any market. He reports the truth that no one else wants to state. This is a playbook for success; a forty-year apprenticeship is explained right between these covers! Take advantage of it.
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Recessions Are Perfect for Currency Investing
Seeking Alpha NY 
The global slow down that has punished stocks for well over a year now has seemed to have “blessed” a couple of currencies out there. Some currencies can actually benefit from “hard times”. Let’s take a look at the chart of the Japanese yen below since “a picture is worth a thousand words”. I’ve overlaid it on a chart of the S&P 500 so you can see how “inversely” they have tended to trade against each other (click to enlarge).

ProFunds Group Names Todd Johnson Chief Investment Officer
MarketWatch 
Dec 02 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –ProFunds Group the world’s largest manager of short and leveraged funds(1) announced today that Todd Johnson has been named Chief Investment Officer. Johnson formerly with World Asset Management will oversee all investment operations for ProShares ETFs and ProFunds mutual funds. The firm’s acting Chief Investment Officer George O. Foster CFA is assuming new responsibilities including directing the firm’s product development strategy. “Todd brings to our leadership team decades of experience in indexed and quantitative investing” said Michael Sapir ProFunds Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “His track record in managing an investment team handling a wide variety of index-based strategies makes him ideally suited to take on that role for the growing range of ProShares and ProFunds.

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