Ken Kam's Best Ideas Blog

Advisor Perspectives, May 13, 2008 - Ken Kam's article entitled, "Coin Flipping and the Search for Alpha," is published in a publication for Financial Advisors click here

The Globe and Mail, May 3, 2008 - mFOLIO Master, Ian St. Martin is featured in an article entitled, ("Professional investor sticks with what he knows," by Larry MacDonald) click here

The Globe and Mail, March 29, 2008 - mFOLIO Master, Randolph McDuff is featured in an article entitled, ("Snagging the bargains under the analyst' radar," by Larry MacDonald) click here

The Globe and Mail, March 11, 2008 - Ken Kam and Marketocracy are featured in-depth in an article entitled, ("A fund for the people, by the people," by Larry MacDonald) click here

MSN Video, February 8, 2008 - m100 member, Vad Yazvinski (dishwasher) describes his investment strategy in a video during the Strategy Lab on MSN Money panel at the World Money Show in Orlando. click here

PR Newswire, February 5, 2008 - Strategy Lab on MSN Money Announces Vad Yazvinski (dishwasher) as Winner of Investing Competition. click here

Börse Online, January 2008 - the "Barron's of Germany" features mFOLIO Masters Ian St. Martin (ist.martin) and Tim Eriksen (teriksen) along with m100 member David Insel (dinsel) in an article about how Marktocracy has enabled aspiring hedge fund managers to realize their dreams of becoming a professional, entitled, ("Internet formt Profianleger," by Nele Husmann) click to download PDF

NY 1 News, February 6, 2008 - David Insel (dinsel) is featured in an article and video interview on Marketocracy on the Times Warner 24-hour news channel in New York City, ("Money Matters: Website Lets Amateurs Learn The Ropes of Day-To-Day Trading," by Lindsey Pless) click here for the article, or to watch the video using Real Player click here

Biz Radio, January 3, 2008 - Ken Kam is interviewed during two segments on Biz Radio by Jack Warkenthien and John Sheely on Where Wall Street Meets Main Street Radio Show (Segment One: Marketocracy,investing, and talking stocks) click here; (Segment Two: the Market, Elan, and Valero) click here

Biz Radio, December 17, 2007 - Ken Kam is interviewed during three segments on Biz Radio by Brent Clanton on the Mike Norman Market Talk Show (Segment One: MSN Strategy Lab and Fed Moves) click here; (Segment Two: More from your Core) click here; (Segment Three: Manager Track Records) click here

Forbes, December 13, 2007 - an Estate Planning article by Ken Kam entitled, ("A Bicycle Trust For Christmas," by Ken Kam) click here

The Times, November 24, 2007 - Chris Rees (crees) and TJ White (auminer) are featured in an article on Marketocracy in the United Kingdom, ("Could you be the next Marketocracy investment expert," by Mark Bridge) click here

Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine, December 2007 - Marketocracy is highlighted in an article, ("Network Your Way to Winning Stocks: Investors who love company are finding lots of it on the Net," by Anne Kates Smith) click here

BusinessWeek, 11/13/07 - Marketocracy is featured in an article, ("Investing: The Net Wisdom or Peers," by David Bogoslaw) click here

Forbes, 11/08/07 - Marketocracy m100 members, Jim Cummings (jcummings1) and George Lang (glang) are featured in an article about retirees that have made a second career out of investing, ("Old Folks, Smart Money," by Matt Schifrin) click here

The Globe and Mail, 11/2/07 - Marketocracy is highlighted in an article, ("A new phase for stock websites," by Rob Carrick) click here

Entrepreneur Magazine, 11/07 - Marketocracy is featured in an article, ("Strength in Numbers: Marketocracy is taking its virtual investing platform into the real world by pooling user advice," by David Worrell) click here

AOL Blogging Stocks, 10/23/07 - Ken Kam on video talks about "Do your homework and buy when other investors are afraid," for a segment at AOL Money and Finance entitled, ("StockWatch: Between the Bells with Ken Kam") VIEW Video here

AOL Blogging Stocks, 10/20/07 - Ken Kam's thoughts on Valero (nyse: VLO) are captured in an article entitled, ("Best energy ideas: 'Misunderstood' value in Valero," by Steven Halpern) click here

San Jose Mercury News, 10/19/07 - Ken Kam is featured and quoted in an article, ("20 years after Black Monday: What if it happened today?," by Mark Schwanhausser) click here

TheStreet.com, 10/18/07 - Marketocracy is featured in an article, ("Fund Casts Wide Net to Catch Best Stocks," by Gregg Greenberg) click here

TheStreet.com, 10/18/07 - Video interview of Ken Kam by Gregg Greenberg of TheStreet.com entitled, ("Marketocracy Chooses Mastercard, Valero") VIEW Video here

Forbes, 10/15/07 - m100 member, Kai Petainen (ahknaten) is featured in an article about trading at Business Schools, ("Playing the Market," by Matthew Kirdahy) click here

Press Release, 10/2/07 - Marketocracy Celebrates "Seven Years of Investing Track Records" - the ONLY Investment Website That Has Long-Term Performance Data on Its Members and Gathering of the Best Investors in the World - m100 Annual Meeting to be held October 5-7th at Marketocracy headquarters (click to see press release)

Press Release, 8/28/07 - Marketocracy Adds New Multi-Zone mFOLIO for Managed Accounts (click to see press release)

U.S. News & World Report, 8/16/07 - Marketocracy mFOLIO Masters Adam Thompson (athompson) and Randolph McDuff (rmcduff) are profiled in an article, ("Profiting From Web Investing Sites," by Renuka Rayasam) click here

U.S. News & World Report, 8/16/07 - Marketocracy is featured in an article about tracking the statistics of portfolio managers ("Tracking Stock-Picking Prowess Online," by Renuka Rayasam) click here

Marketwatch, 8/7/07 - Ken Kam is quoted on the impact of the Fed's decision on Asian stock markets in an article ("Asian stocks may rise on Fed's optimism, U.S. rally," by Moming Zhou) click here

The Market Oracle, 8/4/07 - Marketocracy is featured in article entitled, ("Sharpening Your Stock Trading Skills," by Peter Degraaf) click here

Forbes, 8/2/07 - Ken Kam recommends Valero in an interview entitled, ("Valero's Deep Discount," by John Dobosz) click here

Marketwatch, 7/26/07 - Ken Kam is quoted on the impact of the U.S. market drop on Asian stock markets in an article ("Asia stocks may decline, pacing U.S. downturn," by Moming Zhou) click here

Dow Jones Newswires, 7/17/07 - Ken Kam and Marketocracy are featured in a Tip Sheet ("Marketocracy CEO Nets Ideas From A Large Pool," by Bob Sechler) click here

MSN Strategy Lab, 6/29/07 - Ken Kam is featured along with the launch of Strategy Lab Open, in the Round 15 wrap up ("Chalk up another one for Ken Kam," by Ron Prichard) click here

MSN Strategy Lab, 6/14/07 - Ken Kam shares his personal plan to build a safer safety net for our kids ("A safety net safer than Social Security," by Ken Kam) click here

Press Release, 6/07/07 - Marketocracy's mFOLIOs for Retail Investors a Success (click to see press release)

BusinessWeek, 6/11/07 - Marketocracy is featured as a leader in crowdsourcing within the INSIDE INNOVATION - IN CROWDS section of the print version of BusinessWeek and highlighted online ("Using Web Crowds To Invest, Design Gifts, And Make Things," by Jessi Hempel) click here

AssignmentZERO, 5/31/07 - Marketocracy is featured as a leader in crowdsourcing in a Q&A interview for the groundbreaking collaborative journalism project of NewAssignment.net, founded by Jay Rosen in collaboration with Wired.com. The article looks at how Marketocracy has developed successful approaches key to making crowdsourcing work for investing ("Crowdsourcing to Innovate Investing," by Steve Petersen) click here

Business News Network (BNN), 4/4/07 - Ken Kam is featured in a primetime interview about the importance of knowing a manager's track records vs. a fund's track record in a piece entitled, ("Forget the Funds, Keep Your Eye on Managers," in Round 3 of "Stars & Dogs" with Andrew Bell and Kim Parlee) NOTE: The video takes a long time to load and start. Once the video begins you can scroll through approximately 2/3 of the show to get directly to the interview with Ken Kam. click here

AOL Blogging Stocks, 3/21/07 - Ken Kam is featured in article focused on Valero Energy (VLO) ("Valero: Ken Kam's refined favorite," by Steven Halpern)

Marketwatch, 3/10/07 - Ken Kam is quoted in a Market Snapshot article regarding the market rebound from the global sell-off the week before ("Stocks set to extend rebound," by Carla Mozee) click here

Forbes, 3/5/07 - Marketocracy mFOLIO Master, Chris Rees is featured in an article and compared to both Warren Buffett and Jimmy Buffett (Dual Buffett Strategy, by Matt Schifrin) click here

Marketwatch, 2/28/07 - Ken Kam's commentary in the wake of the Shanghai stock market ripple through the world markets was published in Marketwatch's Guru Corner (Don't Panic! : Fear creates opportunities) click here

BusinessWeek, 2/20/07 - Marketocracy's launch of mFOLIOs is featured in an article written by the Silicon Valley Bureau Chief of BusinessWeek who also wrote the cover story The Power of Us : Mass collaboration on The Internet is shaking up business, where Marketocracy is featured in Finance alongside eBAY for Retail, Google for Advertising, Linux for Software, and Skype for Telecom as the companies "shaking up the status quo in many industries" as part of "the Net's Next Disruption." (Marketocracy + FOLIOfn: Power of the People's Portfolios, by Robert D. Hof) click here

Press Release, 2/20/07 - Marketocracy Selects mFOLIO Masters (click to see press release)

Press Release, 2/20/07 - Marketocracy Partners with FOLIOfn to Launch mFOLIOs for Retail Investors (click to see press release)

VentureBeat, 2/19/07 - Marketocracy's launch of mFOLIOs along with an interview with mFOLIO Master, Chris Rees, is featured in an article written by the founder and editor of VentureBeat, the successor to the popular SiliconBeat (Marketocracy lets you place money with the best, by Matt Marshall) click here

Ticker Magazine, 2/9/07 - Ken Kam and Marketocracy are featured in this popular column entitled, "Mutual Fund Q&A" in which portfolio managers are interviewed. ("Manager Performance," by Ticker Magazine) click here

Forbes, 2/1/07 - Marketocracy Castaway 2006 competition winners are featured in an end of year article ("Seven Buy-And-Hold Stock Stars," by Matthew Schifrin)

BusinessWeek, 1/18/07 - Marketocracy is highlighted in an article looking into the "application of open-source principles to fields outside software" as an example that "you should now about." (Tapping the Wisdom of the Crowd, by Jessi Hempel) click here

MarketWatch, 1/17/07 - Ken Kam is quoted in an article about the launch of the Russell Investment Group's Global 10,000 family of index ("Russell launches Global 10,000 index," by Steve Gelsi)

Associated Press, 1/3/07 - Ken Kam is featured in an article about funds with "go-anywhere" charters (Multicaps give fund managers leeway, by Tim Paradis, Associated Press) click here

Press Release, 1/3/07 - Marketocracy Announces "Castaway Stocks" for 2007 (click to see press release)

AOL Blogging Stocks, 12/27/06 - Ken Kam is featured in article on Valero Energy (VLO) ("Top Picks 2007: Valero fuels refined gains for Ken Kam," by Steven Halpern)

Globe and Mail, 12/26/06 - Marketocracy is highlighted as a leading-edge company in an article about a bestselling book entitled, "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything," by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams (A new world: Get your mass collaboration road map set, by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams)

AOL Blogging Stocks, 12/21/06 - Ken Kam is featured in article on Elan Corporation (ELN) ("Top Picks 2007: Ken Kam revisits Elan and Tysabri," by Steven Halpern)

Forbes, 12/20/06 - Ken Kam is a quoted about taking end of tax-year losses on Infosonics (IFON) in an article ("Year-End Tax Loss Dogs," by John Dobosz)

San Jose Mercury News, 12/17/06 - Ken Kam is quoted in an article about the impact on stock prices of the stock option backdating by companies ("The shares of companies accused of backdating options are up sharply as investors see this mess as past history," by Mark Schwanhausser)

Chicago Tribune, 11/5/06 - Ken Kam is featured talking about Elan and United Airlines ("Risky Business investing in turnaround stocks," by Andrew Leckey) click here

Forbes, 11/1/06 - Marketocracy model portfolio manager, Tim Eriksen (teriksen) is featured and compared with famed portfolio manager, Bill Miller, in an article for a new column entitled, "Armchair Guru" (Leg Up On Legg Mason, by Matt Schifrin) click here

San Francisco Chronicle, 10/23/06 - Marketocracy is featured in an article ("Web sites eye vast number of users to identify experts. Their knowledge draws those who pay for insights," by Alan Sipress) click here

The Washington Post, 10/19/06 - Marketocracy is highlighted as a pioneer of the "wisdom of the few" in an article ("The Top Pickers vs. the Pack: Site want users to buy into the Genius Factor," by Alan Sipress) click here

Marketwatch, 9/23/06 - Ken Kam is quoted in a Market Snapshot article regarding the health of the economy and the possibility of a Fed rate cut ("Equities appear ripe for further losses," by Carla Mozee) click here

Kiplinger's, 9/18/06 - Ken Kam is featured in "Fund Watch", (Five Questions for Marketocracy's Ken Kam, by David Landis) click here

Forbes.com, 9/15/06 - Video interview of Ken Kam by John Dobosz of Forbes.com Video Network entitled, ("Sticking With Refiners And Resources") VIEW Video here

TheStreet.com, 9/12/06 - Video interview of Ken Kam by Gregg Greenberg of TheStreet.com entitled, ("Fund Manager Goes Blogging") VIEW Video here

Forbes, 8/15/06 - article on Infosonics ("Deep Value in Cellphone Distribution," by John Dobosz)

Bottom Line Personal, 8/06 - Ken Kam and Marketocracy are profiled in an article by Lynn O'Shaughnessy

Press Release, 7/31/06 - Marketocracy Launches Ken Kam's Best Ideas Blog (click to see press release)

Marketwatch, 7/14/06 - Ken Kam is quoted in a Market Snapshot article regarding the impact of fighting in the Middle East on oil prices ("Escalating violence could keep U.S. stocks down," by Carla Mozee) click here

Marketwatch, 7/3/06 - Ken Kam's commentary was published in the July issue of Marketwatch's "Trading Strategies" (Time to go on the offensive: Take advantage of choppy market to shop for doubles, by Ken Kam) click here

Wall St. Journal/Dow Jones, 6/29/06 - Ken Kam is quoted in article regarding the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting ("Fed Boosts Interest Rates for 17th consecutive time," by Brian Blackstone)

CNN, 6/23/06 - Ken Kam quoted in article on Bernanke and the Federal Reserve controlling inflation (Fed walks fine line, by Grace Wong) click here

MutualFundWire, 6/20/06 - Marketocracy is profiled ("Marketocracy Take Novel Approach, but Seeks Staying Power," by Marie Glancy)

Investors Business Daily, 6/5/06 - article on Ken Kam by Ken Hoover

Forbes, 4/7/06 - Ken Kam writes about his "Best Ideas" in Forbes' Advisor Soapbox column (Marketocracy's Magnificent Six, by Ken Kam) click here

Forbes.com, 2/16/06 - Video interview of Ken Kam by John Dobosz of Forbes.com Video Network entitled, ("Keeping Faith In His Best Buys") VIEW Video here

Forbes, 1/19/06 - profiles on a handful of Marketocracy model portfolio managers, Jack Barnes (jbarnes2), T.J. White (auminer), Gary Franklin (cfranklin), Alan Baginski (ahbahb), and Bryant Bloedorn (babloedorn) ("Eight Armchair Investors Who Beat The Pros," by Matt Rand) click here

Older Highlights

BusinessWeek, 6/20/05 - Marketocracy for Finance is featured alongside eBAY for Retail, Google for Advertising, Linux for Software, and Skype for Telecom as the companies "shaking up the status quo in many industries" as part of "the Net's Next Disruption" in the cover story (The Power of Us : Mass collaboration on The Internet is shaking up business, by Robert D. Hof) click here

Fortune, 1/10/05 - Marketocracy and m100 members, Ian St. Martin (ist.martin), Larry Thompson (larryjthompson), John Czerw (jczerw), and Michael Kantor (mkantor) are featured in Investing (Power to the People : The Marketocracy fund bets on stock picks from regular folks. After three years its performance is hardly average, by Andy Serwer) click here

Forbes, 3/22/04 - Marketocracy members, Larry Thompson (larryjthompson), Ray Nice (rnice), Kevin Harrigan (bananaslug), Faisal Chaudhry (fchaudhry), and Kevin Fravel (kfravel) are profiled (Amateur Gurus: Class of 2004, by Ken Kam) click here

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