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Recognize that the top companies to invest in right now can include both growth and value stocks—but above all, most of them should be blue-chip stocks
7 Secrets to Unlocking Value Stocks, our free report, gives you the keys to value investing, including how to discover the hidden value that can unlock explosive growth.
A: NICE Ltd. (ADR), $152.79, symbol NICE on Nasdaq (ADRs outstanding: 62.3 billion; Market cap: $9.6 billion; www.nice.com), is an Israel-based company, specializing in telephone voice recording, data security and surveillance, as well as systems that analyze this recorded data....
A: Lloyds Banking Group plc (ADR), $3.07, symbol LYG on New York (ADRs outstanding: 17.6 billion; Market cap: $50.6 billion; www.lloydsbankinggroup.com) offers a range of banking and financial services through its subsidiaries and associated companies....
Here’s the text of the most-recent letter I sent to our Portfolio Management clients in August.

“In recent years, I’ve mentioned that the world is going through a gigantic monetary experiment. At first, I was referring to the “quantitative easing” that the U.S....
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Value investing is one of several investment styles that have over time performed better than the overall market. Other long-term styles with strong track records include small companies, low volatility stocks, and high-quality companies.


The problem for you as an investor is that the winning styles vary over time.


As we highlighted in our October 2018 issue, value stock investors globally have enjoyed a superior long-term performance....

Investor demand for gold is very strong right now, with consistent buying by central banks as well as exchange-traded funds. Silver has also moved lately, but platinum has lagged.


Those last two precious metals have proportionally larger industrial applications than gold (see graph), which strengthens their appeal for investors....

A varied assortment of equity ETFs, as well as base metal producer ETFs, gave investors the biggest gains in September 2019. “Value” ETFs were also well represented at the top end of the leaderboard. The Alpha US Quant Value ETF (QVAL) jumped by 6% while the Vanguard Global Value ETF (Toronto symbol VVL) added 5.7%.


Courtesy of some stability in the economic environment, the iShares MSCI Turkey ETF (TUR) did very well for its investors, with a 12.2% gain in the third quarter....