A New Healthcare Strategy - Branded Pharma Out, Diagnostics, Generics In
“When you lose, Don’t lose the lesson” - The Dalai Lama
For the better part of 5 months I’ve been kicking myself over not dumping Pfizer (PFE) from the Secular Trends Portfolio the day they announced the Wyeth merger. The second I heard about the deal I honestly thought the TV announcer had made a mistake; [...]
U.S. Stock Markets Strike Fresh Lows; Cooler Heads Stand Up?
All the major indexes sit at fresh multi-year lows Wednesday, as the crosscurrents of a seemingly endless wave of negative news has uncertainty levels (as measured by the VIX) one push away from new all-time highs.
The Secular Trends Portfolio has given back all the alpha that seemed so well-earned just two weeks ago on Election [...]
A Hungry Blind Man at the Buffet
These are the days that make investors - and economists - and analysts - try to pull their hair out. I suppose some succeed. It’s not that we can’t handle down days; our skin is impervious to them now. But a day like today is rife with contradiction, uncertainty, changing rules, and low rates of [...]
The LAST ramping trades for Portfolio - BBT, SWY, PFE
Well, this is it. I am officially done with the ramping process after these last three trades.
I can’t quite fathom the odds of trying to get this venture off the ground smack in the middle of the worst crisis of my lifetime.
What will be, will be. I will grow with it, and hopefully this portfolio [...]




