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The Stingy News Weekly (07/03/2011)


"It is hard to make predictions, especially about the future."
- Yogi Berra


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I finished reading the late Peter Cundill's investment biography "There's always something to do" this week and I highly recommend it to any value investor.
http://www.amazon.ca/Theres-Always-Something-Do-Investment/dp/0773538631



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A culture of trust
"Trust, or the lack of it, certainly matters when it comes to commerce. Knack and Keefer, for instance, showed that for a 10% rise in “trust”, as they define it, a country showed a near 1% increase in annual per capital growth, and that civic co-operation was also positively correlated with economic growth. There are multiple possible reasons for this, but if trust is generally reciprocated then the need for all sorts of costly protection mechanisms to defend against being cheated – everything from contracts to security guards and from burglar alarms to prenups – go away. When Buchan and colleagues looked at this issue they also found that the degree of trust people exhibited between each other increased with the amount of personal communication between them, no matter how irrelevant. What it seems is that simply getting to know someone is sufficient to promote trust and, with it, reciprocity: we find it harder to cheat people we have a personal relationship with."


Wrong number
"The cast-iron nature of this pensions guarantee ought, you might think, to be reflected in pension accounting. But states are allowed a more generous accounting treatment than private-sector employers. They can discount their liabilities on the basis of the assumed rate of return (8% is standard) on the assets in their pension funds. Companies have to use the (lower) yield on an AA-rated corporate bond. So the present value of a state’s liabilities is lower than it would be if private-sector rules applied, even though the rights of public-sector workers are greater."


Too much of a good thing
"The number of ETFs has swelled to 2,747. Within equities, there are ETFs based on small-cap companies, value shares, individual industries and every conceivable combination of countries and regions. In bonds, there are ETFs linked to government, corporate and high-yield debt and paper of varying maturities. Some ETFs are based on commodity indices and property markets, others are designed to appeal to the environmentally conscious or to devout Muslims. There are leveraged ETFs which offer a geared return on a given index, inverse ETFs which aim to go down when a benchmark goes up (and vice versa) and, inevitably, leveraged inverse ETFs. For some, this is a worrying trend, with echoes of the subprime housing crisis, in which financial innovation went out of control. That crisis, too, had its origins in invention with a benign aim: the packaging of mortgages for use as securities for bonds was intended to reduce borrowing costs and disperse risk. Eventually, however, that simple idea transmuted into complex collateralised debt obligations and lower lending standards."


The joy of cash
"Long ago, Keynes argued that the “central principle of investment is to go contrary to general opinion, on the grounds that, if everyone is agreed about its merits, the investment is inevitably too dear and therefore unattractive.” This powerful statement of the need for contrarianism is frequently ignored, with disturbing alacrity, by many investors. The latest example in the long line of such behavior may well be the general enthusiasm for so-called tail risk protection. The range of tail risk protection products seems to be exploding. Investment banks are offering “solutions” (investment bank speak for high-fee products) to investors and fund management companies are launching “black swan” funds. There can be little doubt that tail risk protection is certainly an investment topic du jour."


The Paulson Sino Forest loss
"The shortcuts we use as portfolio managers (and these are often sophisticated shortcuts born from some deep understanding of the industry) can make even the best portfolio manager susceptible to fraud."



DOW 30 Value Screens

High Dividend Yield StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
AT&T (T)5535
Verizon (VZ)1345
Merck (MRK)1325
Pfizer (PFE)1425
Intel (INTC)4315
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)3215
Procter & Gamble (PG)2324
Kraft (KFT)1444
General Electric (GE)3544
Chevron (CVX)5444
Notes | More Info...


Low Price/Earnings StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
Travelers (TRV)5553
AT&T (T)5535
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)5451
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)5533
Chevron (CVX)5444
Microsoft (MSFT)4213
Intel (INTC)4315
Exxon Mobil (XOM)4342
Wal-Mart (WMT)4353
Cisco (CSCO)4421
Notes | More Info...


Value Ratio StocksP/EP/BP/SYieldV.R.
AT&T (T)55351.64
Travelers (TRV)55532.89
Intel (INTC)43153.10
Chevron (CVX)54443.37
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)55333.69
Microsoft (MSFT)42134.14
Wal-Mart (WMT)43534.18
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)32154.49
Coca-Cola (KO)41134.68
Procter & Gamble (PG)23244.98
Notes | More Info...


US Stock SummaryYieldP/EV.R.
AT&T (T)YYY
Chevron (CVX)YYY
Intel (INTC)YYY
JP Morgan Chase (JPM)YY
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)YY
Microsoft (MSFT)YY
Procter & Gamble (PG)YY
Travelers (TRV)YY
Wal-Mart (WMT)YY
Cisco (CSCO)Y
Coca-Cola (KO)Y
Exxon Mobil (XOM)Y
General Electric (GE)Y
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)Y
Kraft (KFT)Y
Merck (MRK)Y
Pfizer (PFE)Y
Verizon (VZ)Y
Notes...



S&P/TSX60 Value Screens

High Dividend Yield StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
Yellow Media (YLO)5555
Enerplus (ERF)1515
TransAlta (TA)5445
BCE Inc. (BCE)3245
Sun Life Financial (SLF)5555
Penn West Petroleum (PWT)5525
ARC Resources (ARX)1215
Husky Energy (HSE)3445
Bank of Montreal (BMO)4435
CIBC (CM)5235
Notes | More Info...


Low Price/Earnings StocksP/EP/BP/SYield
Research In Motion (RIM)5450
Penn West Petroleum (PWT)5525
Inmet Mining (IMN)5421
Nexen (NXY)5531
Magna (MG)5453
Sun Life Financial (SLF)5555
TransAlta (TA)5445
Yellow Media (YLO)5555
Canadian Tire (CTC.A)5553
National Bank (NA)5334
Notes | More Info...


Value Ratio StocksP/EP/BP/SYieldV.R.
Yellow Media (YLO)55550.36
Penn West Petroleum (PWT)55251.60
TransAlta (TA)54451.89
Sun Life Financial (SLF)55552.16
Bank of Montreal (BMO)44352.75
CIBC (CM)52352.76
Canadian Oil Sands (COS)41243.00
BCE Inc. (BCE)32453.02
National Bank (NA)53343.31
Power Corp of Canada (POW)45553.31
Notes | More Info...


Canadian Stock SummaryYieldP/EV.R.
Penn West Petroleum (PWT)YYY
Sun Life Financial (SLF)YYY
TransAlta (TA)YYY
Yellow Media (YLO)YYY
BCE Inc. (BCE)YY
Bank of Montreal (BMO)YY
CIBC (CM)YY
National Bank (NA)YY
ARC Resources (ARX)Y
Canadian Oil Sands (COS)Y
Canadian Tire (CTC.A)Y
Enerplus (ERF)Y
Husky Energy (HSE)Y
Inmet Mining (IMN)Y
Magna (MG)Y
Nexen (NXY)Y
Power Corp of Canada (POW)Y
Research In Motion (RIM)Y
Notes...



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