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  • Activist Investing in Korea (David Hurwitz)

    Notes from the Value Investing Congress

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  • Petra Capital, “In Search of ‘Hidden’ Champions in South Korea”

    These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Petra presented on South Korean stocks last year in Las Vegas as well, so it’s likely that these stocks are also ones that individual investors have trouble buying. They’re […]

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  • David Hurwitz, “Opportunities for Activism in Korea”

    These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. David Hurwitz says that Korea is a value investor’s dream — great companies are cheap, and the backdrop is a wealthy country that’s among the most stable in the […]

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  • High Yield Investment of the Month again … and again … and again

    Let me just warn you up front — this is a rerun. But I calls ’em like I sees ’em, and Carla Pasternak runs this same exact ad so often that I get questions about it once every few months. This is no exception — she’s been calling this particular Closed End Fund (CEF) her […]

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  • “November Income Security — 35.1% Yield!”

    I hope that everyone who reads the teaser email from StreetAuthority.com for Carla Pasternak’s High-Yield Investing takes their claims of a 35% forward dividend yield with a little bit of a grain of salt. Obviously, there’s no way to get a 35% annual dividend that’s sustainable and/or safe, so there must be something unusual going […]

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  • Comments

  • Could be, but if anything happens in the next few years, South Korea will be in the driver's seat first....

  • Sorry rushing a comment in when I didn't have time and not enough depth plus many typos, 17.3% not 1.3%. It isn't all o...

  • Goodyear (GT) is pretty cheap, like pretty much all the auto suppliers. Haven't looked at any of those otherwise, I thi...

  • I know Katusa is his name but whenever I see it I think of the thousands of KATUSAs in Korea - Korean soldiers serving a...

  • Thanks, WVermeir, for pointing us at SeaTrade News. I’m not sure what to think of the idea of floating multiple nucle...

  • I own NVIDIA $NVDA and Datametrex AI TSXV: DM.V OTC: DMXTF for this space.Datametrex AI is a profitable currently u...

  • Not sure what to call it — maybe a “Pink Llama” — but it’s sure not a “black swan” if you are predicting i...

  • High probability that the next "Black Swan" will be a Chinese takeover of their lost Taiwan province. May not be in 30 d...

  • i can see a partnership with IBM for 2mu applications but I don't see it going much further given developments in radiat...

  • My bet is on naver not coupang. I understand that coupang did the usa ipo and maybe easier to buy but naver may have the...

  • Definitely. And Sea and Alibaba are already competing with each other pretty aggressively, and with Grab and others to ...

  • You should analyse the current competition in korea. Naver is much stronger then coupang. Furthermore 11 streeth subsid...

  • Have never looked at it. Russia would make me think a lot more about risk than South Korea does....

  • I might have read the same article from Barron's that you did which discusses Coupang as more than just the "Amazon of ...

  • Basically Qualcomm is a best-in-class semiconductor company the head office is in San Diego they are the world’s larg...

  • We will continue to have to deal with conspiracy theories and the antidote is fact check. However we have become a co...

  • olarWindow Generates Electricity on Flexible Plastics and Glass NEW YORK and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NE...

  • "When Italy instituted containment measures, both the infection and fatality rate dropped dramatically" - which is what ...

  • I had some of both stocks and will have to check how its going. One thing is korea had 3 or 4 hydrogen fueling station...

  • Funny, I never think of South Korea as an “emerging” market — only Japan really has a higher GDP per capita in Asi...

  • I also owned OLED ages ago. There are problems with cellphones that go beyond the screen, howeveer. My latest from LG (m...

  • P.S.: I read that the wild polio virus strains are no more. Now the thousands paralized by polio have the vaccine caus...

  • Oxford recommended NOK some months back. I finally bought some under $3 few weeks back. I was entering my purchase in ...

  • Swine flu may have been deemed a "mild" pandemic by WHO compared, say, to the 1918 Pandemic. But a pandemic it was. Than...

  • Science has already improved the picture. They have been curing it all last month in SOUTH Korea, Taiwan, & China......

  • South Korea fire: ‘Small failures shouldn’t lead to major issues’, DNV GL says:https://www.energy-storage.news/n...

  • They exist- just as easy to loose your money there as owning individual crypto's. Now matter what all the hucksters say ...

  • My understanding is Huawei adopted a different frequency in range of 3/4G from mmWave adopted by US, S Korea, and Japan...

  • Could be, but I think we’re still very early... 5G capacity has literally just begun to be installed in test cities. ...

  • Recently, I learned that 5G implementation has to choose between two frequency bands: FR1 and FR2 . FR1 is close to th...

  • From Biotime's recent press release: BioTime has developed Hextend(R), a blood plasma volume expander for use in surger...

  • #batteries and fires in North Korea article. https://www.energy-storage.news/news/koreas-ess-fires-batteries-not-to-blam...

  • Halo-Fi is an internet company that will put all the rip off cable companies out of business. Their service will be much...

  • edskiI agree, but once there is some news coming out of China/USA /Japan/ Korea (to-day they reported progress still g...

  • The big markets in Asia have either no pipeline has, or not enough — particularly Japan and S. Korea. China is a wild...

  • AH? Clearly you do not know who has supported Monsanto and who has not....and clearly you have no idea all Trump has ac...

  • one of the stocks inthe Global Investing portfolio, Teva of Israel, expects to launch a migraine med based on deuterium ...

  • I quit following this thread years ago, because I did not want to be in the same room, even a virtual room, with a perso...

  • Chris Gilbey OAM to Join Ionic Board We farewell Merlin Allan as he returns to the UK and welcome the appointment of Ch...

  • $FYI - Daily news from pv magazine USA - 6/27/2018https://us13.campaign-archive.com/?e=052d095e56&u=2790e780a...

  • No, but I picked a company that had a cure (ANACOR) and published a thread on it. Boron molecular chemists.They g...

  • 5/7/18Press Release: Aptose Exercises Early Option for CG-806 License From CrystalGenomics -- http://phx.corporat...

  • Hi williamstown, excellent your mate got what he wanted for his wife. These stocks can be such a gamble, DD yes but luck...

  • SS KRC ASX call of yours is a ripper, and looks likely to go higher.True story, my friend asked me recently what sh...

  • Let's see. Jim Richards often talks about Gold being driven higher...crypto-currencies are on the rise...the dollar co...

  • $BNKL - Bionik Laboratories Corp. and Curexo Enter Exclusive Distribution Agreement for Sale of Robotic Rehabilitation S...

  • $FYI - PNNL helps form international energy storage organizationhttps://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4495&...

  • Posted on HC by thaiinvest, whose posts re worth reading IMO. Am posting here as pretty much sums up most but not all of...

  • Part 1 #Olympics_EXO @weareoneEXO https://twitter.com/TouchItSehun/status/967744083342094337"It was nice to perform...

  • The Bible did not advocate slavery any more than it advocated divorce, and you can't know it very well if you think so. ...

  • The more I read, the more I get confused (I've been confused the entire 84 years of my life). I recently decided to su...

  • The world has shrunken and will shrink further. The US is the template for the worlds future. The Constitution is the fo...

  • BloomBox - 2010 CBS 60 minutes video led me to it's list of announcements. Google it and it pops up instantly but here ...

  • In my haste I neglected to add Big Tech to the EV bandwagon, and Japan and Korea as countires who would like a little le...

  • well. I have been investing for 40 years. I have made MANY mistakes. I was wiped out in 2000, due to arrogance --- I tho...

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  • South Korea getting serious about making sure crypto exchanges are above board and their investors are registered correc...

  • #Premarket Top % Gainers: $LIVE 40%, $UGAZ 9%, $SPWR $BOIL $SMI $UNG $NEOT $AMPE $AEG $JNUG $EURN $CIM $OTIV $RIO $URA $...

  • #Truth #shall #set #YOU #free https://twitter.com/AllenFrancesMD/status/937830947336085504 & what is really scary: ...

  • $PTN. Long, Hi Doc, still long this one and it has been doing well over the last couple months. I know you use to lik...

  • From the above article "The Perfect Storm"...consider this paragraph..."The tectonic shift of (i) the placement of S...

  • Volatility is indeed extreme with much of the most recent rank speculation coming out of S Korea. In addition approval o...

  • The Government of most countries does not control its money supply. The same as United States relying on the Federal Res...

  • Well said, Sharon.Don't forget that Bill Clinton was the President who "trusted" North Korea and, as a result, allow...

  • Information on storage batteries seems to be sparse. There are studies just initiated at PNNL this year on the USA elect...

  • Rocket Man Goes Phishing by Manward Bulletin 1-/14 Dictator Logic Sometimes the threat of nuclear war just isn't enou...

  • I agree, HN. I expected some recalcitrance, but what is going on is beyond the pale. Trump's opponents are bordering on ...

  • $AUPH Aurinia is putting the pedal to the metal. Now has 90 trial sites open.On the subject of voclosporin, has an...

  • $FEYE should be the ones North Korea should really fear. A while back the acquired Mandiant. (Mandia is now CEO of FireE...

  • South Korea has said they do not want to rebuild Seoul, as they had to following the Korean conflict. Will that shift t...

  • $CTEQF Just guessing about price drop but market is nervous about N Korea situation and may just be part of general flo...

  • $SPX $IBB $XBIU.S. Stock Futures Rise as Irma Weakens, Korea Tensions EaseBloomberg September 10, 2017U.S....

  • $SCYX (long and green) Around 12:30 today someone paid (and someone took) over $2,000 buying over 200 SCYX Oct 2.50 Call...

  • Wondering what people think about cryptocurrency now that China and South Korea have blocked participation in ICOs...

  • Like the con-artists who play on greed and fear and promise you riches while they intend to enrich only themselves as th...

  • todd An enigma wrapped in a conundrum. Often forgotten is that Korea was the first UN peacekeeping action of The New W...

  • Visit coindesk.com for your news updates. Bitcoin is already legal currency in Japan, South Korea, and Australia....

  • IMHO there's no immediate rush to get into $PTGX. I'm also somewhat concerned that there may be a bit of a market correc...

  • Travis, thanks for the analysis. I am certainly no expert but have been studying the whole thing quite a bit lately. I...

  • http://www.breitbart.com/video/2017/08/11/ellison-kim-jong-un-is-acting-more-responsibly-than-trump/ This is what the D...

  • Simong, I hear you. I'm looking at some of the sales and wishing I had more capital. AUPH, AKAO, ESPR, ZFGN, PTLA, HA...

  • $Noticker: - well, none of those 3 criteria fit me; I'm an older, financially knowledgeable person with all of my non-ho...

  • Apologies for the lengthy post above, I was not logged in, and the guest post will be delayed for moderation since it co...

  • The bulk capacity of high quality cells comes from Samsung in Korea and Panasonic in Japan. Tesla's "Gigafactory " is ...

  • What I, or you, want is meaningless. I was merely pointing out a fact. In all likelihood the population is likely to ha...

  • I understand where the declining-population crowd are coming from, but it seems to be a purely First World view. Sure, ...

  • Excellent presentation. Honestly, I had no idea of the risks we face on our planet. I will share your thoughts with my...

  • This is, I feel, very important news. This could be a catalyst for world changing events soon and I do not want to use h...

  • Frank, I keep thinking the left can't shock me anymore, until I saw Huffpo had had article sneering and being heartless ...

  • I was startled to learn while talking to highschoolers that they literally had never heard what communism was, and didn'...

  • From microagressions to jail terms. When trivia becomes the reason for jailing a person, are we so far behind North Ko...

  • Obama probably wouldn't go to the toilet without Jarrett's approval. He said that he consulted her on every significant ...

  • Well said! Not to mention that Iran is happily working with North Korea according to even msm media reports. Obama and...

  • $???? Hi everyone, I was just curious if someone could shed light into any knowledge or science behind PHMGH, active ing...

  • Arch and Sharon,I couldn't agree with you more. I've never been more afraid of what is happening to this country--an...

  • North Korea : Our government tells us the launches were failures, and we all breathe a sigh of relief BUT "On April 30,...

  • $APTO long OW - This is all the details that I could fine on payments. $3 million up front no other details. In June 20...

  • $APTO "Aptose said it expects to undertake IND-enabling studies immediately, and, if it exercises an option under the ag...

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