Jack Brown, INVESTigator

The blog provides timely observations of various investment topics from the perspective of a professional value investor and investment adviser, and is intended for educational purposes only. While each investor has a unique set of goals and circumstances, all investors face a similar range of market opportunities and risks. Jack Brown, INVESTigator highlights some of the specifics on these opportunities and risks in addition to discussing longer term investment and planning themes. Social media: (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jack-brown-cfa/0/513/809) My work is also posted on http://www.laureola.net/Research.htm

• Have Lower Quality Stocks Really Outperformed? Posted 1/4/2011 at 12:45 p.m. 0 comments

  My take on earnings quality and recent performance

• Two Natural Advantages of Value Investing Posted 12/8/2010 at 7:07 a.m. 0 comments

  Buying "cheap" in the context of market history and managerial accounting (kind of)...

• A Bad Case of TMI (Too Much Information) Posted 12/2/2010 at 9:39 a.m. 0 comments

  What lesson can investors take from the Wikileaks data dump?

• Christmas Inflation Rising Posted 11/29/2010 at 6:32 a.m. 0 comments

  Tracking items in the 12-Days of Christmas

• China's new fight on inflation Posted 11/22/2010 at 10:42 a.m. 0 comments

  Potentially tricky battle for China

• Mankiw offers a pragmatic view on Deficit Commision Posted 11/22/2010 at 10:34 a.m. 0 comments

  Harvard economist weighs in...

• More on 'A Good Investment Trend in Real Estate' Posted 11/20/2010 at 3:06 p.m. 0 comments

  Banks selling loans to institutional investors is a good thing.

• A Good Investment Trend in Real Estate Posted 11/18/2010 at 8:47 a.m. 0 comments

  Individual investors are helping homeowners, the economy, and themselves by buying distressed mortgages.

• NYT: You Fix the US Budget Deficit Posted 11/16/2010 at 6:53 a.m. 0 comments

  Interactive tool that's worth a look

• Inflation's Tectonic Plates Posted 11/12/2010 at 8:33 a.m. 0 comments

  Supplies of economic production are set to tighten. How does this fit into the inflation/deflation debate?