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Boulder Income Fund is my Berkshire proxy trade

Positions // May 17, 2013 by James Roberts

Boulder Income Fund has a 25% stake in Berkshire.

Why we added Leucadia National to our portfolio

Positions // April 6, 2013 by James Roberts

Leucadia is highly diversified and has an appetite for risk.

Why we bought Graphic Packaging and Banner Corp.

Positions // January 16, 2013 by James Roberts

The Stock Diagnostics model reshuffled the lineup for 2013.

Wary of the herd, I cut loose my Apple holding

Positions // October 20, 2012 by James Roberts

Apple is a little like Microsoft during the late 1990s tech bubble. So I sold.

The Most Admired model's new core holding: Berkshire Hathaway

Positions // September 28, 2012 by James Roberts

Buffett likes to have an economic moat that deters competition for his holdings--and I would like to do the same.

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Here's why I upped my position in Berkshire Hathaway

Positions // September 18, 2012 by James Roberts

Berkshire is beginning to perform relatively better than it did last year.

Why I sold Apple, Yum Brands and Qualcomm

Positions // August 6, 2012 by James Roberts

The primary motivation for selling those particular stocks was that all had their earnings estimates reduced by some Wall Street analysts.

In search of low volatility stocks like Berkshire and Microsoft

Positions // July 10, 2012 by James Roberts

One way to reduce correlation with the S&P: find stocks with a history of lower volatility than the index.

Why I added Dollar General to my portfolio

Positions // June 15, 2012 by James Roberts

Dollar General was purchased by a private equity group whose management input has helped produce excellent earnings.

Researching retail stocks the old fashioned way

Positions // May 14, 2012 by James Roberts

I like investing in retailers because you can keep your finger on their pulse by visiting their stores.

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James Roberts

James Roberts

I worked for a micro-cap value hedge fund as a research analyst for 8 years and then opted for semi-retirement while writing company research reports for StockDiagnostics.com and managing rental real estate for my former boss at the hedge fund

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The "Best Ideas Model" will use some of the most compelling ideas derived from the other two portfolios, StockDiagnostics and Most Admired.  Occasionally, I will utilize an idea that wasn’t used in either of these two other models.

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I manage this model with a consumer’s preferences in mind. I prefer companies the average consumer is familiar with. The universe of stocks from which the portfolio is selected consists of all the companies in Fortune Magazine's "most admired" list, whether or not they are actually the "most admired". A supplementary list ranked according to cash flow and sales growth is the Barron's 500. Both lists are published by April each year.

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I select stocks for inclusion in my portfolio from the universe of recommended stocks published by StockDiagnostics.com, an independent financial research provider.

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