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Interview: “The Skinny on Penny Stocks”

I was quoted in an article about penny stock investing that our friend Jon Heller wrote for Bankrate.com back in August (I’m putting the link up now because we’ve resolved an editorial tussle with Bankrate’s staff over one of my quotes). You may remember that Jon interviewed us back in May regarding our investment philosophy and our active investment strategy, Symmetry Capital’s Opportunistic Portfolio.

Jon asked us to participate because we often purchase low priced shares of companies in the Opportunistic Portfolio. We do this because there are multiple structural and institutional inefficiencies that sometimes create attractive risk-reward situations among low priced securities. However, as all of the experts in Jon’s article point out, there’s a lot of risk and hard work involved in finding the handful of gems among the slag pile of penny stocks, as well as a number of con artists willing to prey upon people’s desire to get rich quick.

It’s a well written article with some good insights – highly recommended.

URLs:

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/investing/the-skinny-on-penny-stocks-1.aspx

http://stocksbelowncav.blogspot.com/2009/05/cheap-stocks-interview-art-patten_26.html

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categories News and Views | art October 8, 2009 | comments Comments Off

Our Interview with Jon Heller

Jon Heller, a financial planner and longtime financial writer, was kind enough to interview us for his Cheap Stocks blog. Jon’s a smart, interesting guy who shares our passion for deep value investing, and we recently spoke with him about our investment philosophy, our current outlook, and a couple of favorite names in our actively managed Opportunistic Portfolio. We’re also happy to note that the interview was picked up by the Seeking Alpha website.

URLs:

http://stocksbelowncav.blogspot.com/2009/05/cheap-stocks-interview-art-patten_26.html

http://seekingalpha.com/article/139767-interview-with-art-patten-president-of-symmetry-capital

DISCLAIMER: The foregoing information does not construe an offer to buy or sell securities, nor is it a recommendation to follow any investment strategy. Clients and/or principals of Symmetry Capital Management, LLC may hold long, short, or derivative positions in any of the securities mentioned.

DISCLOSURE: As noted in the interview, certain clients of Symmetry Capital hold positions in HIMX, RMT, and THMD.

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categories News and Views | art May 27, 2009 | comments Comments Off