Primary Recommendation

StatPro - Changes sales model to per-portfolio basis

September 2018

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

In the 1970s, Boston Consulting identified that companies consist of four contrasting component businesses: “cash cows” are mature businesses that generate cash; “dogs,” more charitably called pets, are irretrievable loss-makers with low market shares in low growth industries; “growth stars” are businesses that are both growing strongly and generating cash in a fast growing industry; and last come “questionmark” (or problem child) businesses, which consume large chunks of investment cash now in the hope of good returns later.StatPro is a supplier of software that allows asset management firms to analyse investment performance, attribution and risk and to publish, report and distribute ...

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