Friday, April 30, 2010

Portfolio Tracking II

This post is a follow up of the earlier post dated Feb 11 2008 entitled Portfolio Tracking ... We have updated our tracking engine and have set the following conditions as well as make some observations:

Conditions:
1) tracked the performance of stocks /ETFs for comparable periods from April 2004 through March 2010,
2) selected those that have generated average return in excess of 15% p.a. or with Sharpe ratio above 0.4 ( risk free set at 3% ), and
3) ranked them according to average return.

Observations:
1) based on an equal weighting of amount invested per period ( annual ), it is possible to surmise that an investor can achieve a reasonable return on a "buy-and-hold" basis,
2) such counters exhibit high betas ( ranging from 1.3 to 2.0 ) with the exception of XOM ( 0.5 ) and HPQ ( 1.0 ),
3) such counters also are quite correlated to S&P 500,
3) they are mostly "growth" stocks / asset classes i.e. emerging markets, linked to emerging market growth stories ( US Exporters, commodities etc ),
4) include technology stocks with great innovation ( AAPL ), and
5) these counter also suffered significant dips during 2008/2009 but rebounded strongly subsequently.

If these counters maintain their sound fundamentals there is no reason that they cannot outperform the market.

The trick is to stay focus and follow the simple rule of ensuring that the portfolio is re-balanced periodically by taking profits off the table and topping losses where necessary.

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Thursday, April 08, 2010

Inno-cation 以及 质量 第五部分 - 焦虑,挑衅 以及 激情

焦虑,挑衅,激情是情感的元素 ... 没有它们,我们的生活会怎么样?希望和要求是改变的关键。

情感是可以发现自己未满足需求的一种刺激源 ... 以及改变是实现在当你的未满足的需求得到满足的时候。

诉诸于你的情绪的独特想法是一个强大的连接器。艺术作为一种媒体有助于表达人们的情感。然而,不加制止的情感能有不良的后果。它可能恶化并导致迷恋或越惨的瘾。

创新已定义是的和实现未满足需求, 它具有 一部份的挑衅来 触发或引诱了一个响应。因此,创造了“inno-cation“这个词语 。

艺术家可以激起过滤的情感的裸体或近裸体肖像绘画来 理解人性, 从而寻求灵感 。到任何画廊,你都很可能抽样这样的作品。这些作品肯定会启动你的想象力.

触发反应后,你的大脑很快内部化这些信号通过匹配到你的价值体系把你呼醒回到现实。

合理化过程可以让你按照你的信仰判断经验是否有质量。当你的价值演变,你可能更关心那些经验唤起的质量的动态方面。

终于,社会在传授 道德价值观中扮演重要的角色, 因此监察行为并制定规范. 只有社会允许公民的集体思想解放, 它才能进步。目前新兴经济体如中国,印度,巴西等处于变化的交叉道路。为了实现经济发展的下一个阶段,他们寻求重塑 。

问题是社会能否从历史中学习吸取经验, 避免重复过去的错误,为人民的利益进展?

同样,机构面临着类似的挑战。他们需要把控制和授权平衡起来。拥有共同的价值观和共同的思想有助于解决无数由这些实体所面临的挑战。

成功的关键因素

它实质上可以归结为分享奖励 。在这里 我们采取博弈论的支持者的做法. 首先,每个人必须为团体的共同利益做努力,因此该团体得到最优的结果。其次,必须有公平的方式分配利润。目标是鼓励贡献者,但同时不给懒鬼者机会使团体士气低落。

看有多少团体完善有利于合作者的博弈论的艺术, 这将是有趣的事。

自私的行为 是瓦解团体的根本原因!

总之,要取得 成功的创新,您需要:
a)拥有正确的核心理念, 即价值像勇气,信心和信念,
b)拥有合适的人才,
c)有客观衡量价值驱动因素的教练工具,帮助管理资源而达到更有效率的结果, 和
d)提供适当的奖励和激励措施。


强大的领导力,扎根在正确的价值体系,并受到简单容易遵循的共同的意识形态的驱策,是前进的道路...





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