Up, up and away?

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 25, 2008 in Blog, Worst of the Blog | 0 comments …the Holiday is fast approaching and I hope that all of you have wonderful plans to enjoy a breather. Today marked the third day in a row that the financial markets closed up. More importantly, they closed up despite the fact that there was bad news from important companies. Bad news is no longer triggering panics and this is a good thing. Recall from last month’s initial blog...
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Highwater marking

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 24, 2008 in Blog | 0 comments   I wanted to talk to you about an executive pay concept that was introduced into my thinking by a former colleague, who is still a good friend, named Chandler Spears. Chan is the Portfolio Manager of the Davis Real Estate Fund and he has served in that capacity for many years now. Chandler introduced me to the concept of “high-water marking” executive pay packages. So what...
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an irony that just occured to me

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 22, 2008 in Blog | 0 comments   Isn’t it ironic that the government’s solution to the financial crisis is the exact same thing that got us into this mess in the first place? Namely, give mostly free money to folks and hope that they behave responsibly with all of that cash. Hmmmmm
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the people are changing

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 22, 2008 in Blog | 0 comments   Happy Saturday to each of you! You may have heard about yesterday’s financial market rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 6.5%, the S&P 500 was up 6.3% and the NASDOG was up 5.2%. All of this rise was attributed to President-elect Obama’s expected nomination for Secretary of the Treasury, Timothy Geithner. As regular readers of this little blog know, I have been...
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price earnings ratio primer

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 20, 2008 in Best of the Blog, Blog | 0 comments   In today’s post I wanted to share with you the results from one of my favorite tools that I developed during my career as a professional money manager. It was a spreadsheet that took me several days to create that analyzed the financial implications of P/E ratios. Folks bandy about P/E ratios without necessarily understanding what they mean for long-term returns. In case some of you...
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a little financial humor

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 20, 2008 in Blog | 0 comments   This comes courtesy of my father in-law and will hopefully lighten things up a bit… Try this Financial humor from Japan: Following problems in the subprime lending market in the States and its devastating effect on Northern Rock and Bear Stearns, uncertainty has now hit Japan. In the last 7 days the famous Origami Bank has folded. Sumo Bank has gone belly up and the Bonsai Bank...
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sorry for the absence

Posted by Jason Apollo Voss on Nov 19, 2008 in Blog | 0 comments   Hello everyone! Sorry for the lack of posts in the last several days. I have been traveling and had but my BlackBerry at my disposal. Needless to say, for my posting a BB is not the ideal instrument to use to post. However, I have several blog postings at the ready and will be publishing them in the next several days. With smiles! Jason
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