Biz Dev in NYC by Rob Tsai

I was recently interviewed by Covestor for their weekly member interview series.
Here’s a link to the PDF of the interview.
Thanks to Perry, Paul and Blair for the opportunity to be featured.

From Seeking Alpha:
Shares of hog and beef producer Smithfield Food Inc. were down Monday, as analyst slashed the company’s projected earnings based on weak hog prices and growing hog supply.  BB&T downgraded Smithfield from a buy to a hold, and cut its current quarter earnings target to $0.17/share from $0.48/share. "Hog-production profitability has deteriorated dramatically […]

Reading Fred Wilson’s discussion about the social investing field motivated me to test out Cake Financial (I’m opening a Covestor profile as well):
A big theme at TechCrunch 40 was social/web financial services. Mint and Cake launched there and Mint came away with the top prize.
The twist that Cake brings to the social investing field is […]

BusinessWeek has an interesting cover story on how, in the search for higher returns, investors are assuming greater risks and investing in markets like Colombia:
Call them extreme emerging markets… In this parallel investing universe, price-earnings ratios take a backseat to fuzzy measures such as confianza, which translates into confidence and trust but is more […]