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Hawkeye’s Guide to Private Equity Real Estate

Posted by MoneyTalks Editor

on Friday, 23 August 2019 12:59

Learn about the latest market trends and private real estate offerings in North America.
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Another Moneytalks Recommendation Goes Sky High

Posted by MoneyTalks Editor

on Thursday, 22 August 2019 10:10

XPEL Inc was one of our Keystone Financial World Outlook Conference Portfolio recommendations – it is now up 68% in 6 months. Since its inception 10 years ago our Small Cap Portfolio has realized double digit gains annually. Don’t miss this year’s conference February 7th-9th.

Why Silicon Valley Is Moving To Toronto

Posted by Michael Kern

on Thursday, 22 August 2019 9:10

Silicon Valley has a second address, and it’s becoming much more than a summer cottage these days. Welcome to Toronto, the hottest new venue for the North American tech industry.  For starters, this Silicon Valley cottage residence has lured in Intel Corp, Uber, Microsoft and Silicon Valley Bank, among others.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Intel Corp. is planning to build a graphics-chip design lab in Toronto. Uber is opening up an engineering hub. Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is establishing a campus in Toronto for its Lake Ontario “smart city”. Microsoft is working to significantly expand its Toronto labor force, too.

That means that there is also a lineup of startups preparing to go public in Canada, following on the coattails of the successful IPOs of Shopify Inc. and Lightspeed POS Inc earlier this year….CLICK for complete article 

Can you make your brain wave?

Posted by Trend Disruptors/ by Trend Letter

on Thursday, 22 August 2019 7:50

Some technologies start off as science-fiction, as they are often difficult to visualize and difficult to execute. Space travel and rocket ships started out this way, like so many innovations over the past 100 years. Medical technology also has made great strides that were unimaginable just a few years or decades ago.

One of the concepts trying to cross the line to reality is the ability to link the human brain to a digital computer, a concept that Elon Musk…Click here for full article

Superforecasting A Bear Market

Posted by Seth Levine

on Friday, 16 August 2019 9:15

There’s an ongoing debate about whether or not the U.S. is approaching a recession. As an investor, this question is of utmost importance. It is precisely at these times when fortunes can be made and lost. There’s no shortage of pundits with strong opinions in both the affirmative and negative camps armed with plausible narratives and supporting data sets. How to decide which side to take? Applying some proven forecasting methods to historical data can help bring clarity to this question.

Forecasting is tricky business. It’s really hard to do well consistently, especially in investing.

Fortunately for us, Philip Tetlock has made a study of forecasting. In the book Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (aka Superforecasting) he and coauthor Dan Gardner share their findings of a multi-year study aimed to discover the best forecasters, uncover their methods, and to determine if forecasting skills could improve. There are many great lessons conveyed in the book. We can thus apply them to our problem at hand: the question of whether or not the U.S. will enter a recession….CLICK for complete article