33. Real estate leases serve as a hedge against Wholesale Transfer Pricing. Advertising may be the new rent, but the rent is month-to-month so if you don’t expect to get squeezed it’s your own fault.
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34. Insurance tends to be an awful business, but a fun way to check the trend in reserving adequacy is converting calendar year loss development triangles into accident year ones. Insurance has goofy accounting so sometimes you can gain insight from the granularity.
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35. Insurance float is one of the worst kinds of float because what you can do with it is heavily regulated. If someone is starting an insurer for float, run away. There’s a good chance they’re either living decades in the past, planning a scheme, or lacking in creativity.
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36. Anti-prestige businesses are often not appreciated on the market. There’s often value in companies that cater to non-coastal regions and rural communities.
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37. Having a list of businesses that should do well in alternate economic environments can be useful to help you move quickly if things change.
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38. Get on the mailing lists of the major investment newsletter publishers. Sometimes they’ll pitch a small cap stock for months at a time in their advertising, if the return on ad spend is high enough. Between a small float and a million Boomers, interesting things can happen.
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39. Alternatively, just check out Stock Gumshoe and avoid the spam. There’s a guy there who analyzes the advertisements and outs the stocks they’re pitching. Sometimes the momentum from a repeated pitch alone is enough to be worth a small wager. http://www.stockgumshoe.com
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40. Who knows how long it will last with the new proposed SEC rule, but there is an opportunity to create catalysts with Pink Sheet stocks that don’t post their financials publicly. Using shareholder rights laws to get and share them, you can sometimes help market efficiency.
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41. Structural subordination sounds like a BDSM theme but unfortunately it’s just a credit term mostly relevant in distress scenarios. Well, I guess it’s not that different.
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