by Jason Apollo Voss | 27 04 2012 | Blog
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is charged with ensuring the proper functioning of U.S. financial markets worth at minimum $18,929 billion in market capitalization (the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX combined), has a paltry annual budget of just $1.321...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 03 04 2012 | Best of the Blog, Blog
In an investment world with any number of potential credit shocks (see our coverage of debt crises in the eurozone, China, Japan, and the United States) and trillion dollar/euro/yen/yuan consequences, a detailed analysis of creditor risk and credit spreads is...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 20 03 2012 | Best of the Blog, Blog
After the Great Recession (2008 to the present), it is in vogue to criticize the risk-free rate of return as a spurious concept. This is not surprising given the twin sovereign debt crises of the European Union and the United States; both countries’ debt instruments...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 20 03 2012 | News & Events
Today Jason Apollo Voss, author of The Intuitive Investor was privileged to be interviewed by Marketplace Business New York Bureau Chief, Heidi N. Moore. The subject was Apple’s (ticker symbol: AAPL) decision to pay shareholders a $2.65/share quarterly...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 14 03 2012 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Currently there is almost no “income” in fixed-income investing. In preceding decades interest rates took on the job of compensating investors for the credit risks they bear. But with no cash to compensate risks, analytical scrutiny of issuer creditworthiness has...
