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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 11, 2010
We were pleased to see the Congressional Effect Fund (symbol: CEFFX) mentioned in the closing of a light-hearted, yet seriously accurate, Wall Street Journal article
Read more... |  | NEW A NEED INVESTMENT STRATEGY? THIS FUND MANAGER MAKES MONEY WHEN CONGRESS IS OUT OF TOWN
Pajamas TV-Economy and Financial Review, with Allen Barton, July 7, 2009
Congressional Vacations: Good for Business...? Read more... |  | OBAMA GRIDLOCKED IS THE MARKET'S NEW BEST FRIEND
Bloomberg, by Amity Shlaes, September 8, 2009
Right wingers are in an uproar over President Barack Obama’s plan to address school children this week. Read more... |  | WHAT CAN CONGRESS DO TO HELP THE ECONOMY? STOP DOING ANYTHING!
THE G. GORDON LIDDY SHOW, SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Eric Singer was recently on The G. Gordon Liddy Show discussing his unique investment strategy. Read more... |  | STUDY: STOCKS DO BETTER WITHOUT CONGRESS
Fox Business, with Stuart Varney, June 26, 2009
Eric Singer from Congressional Effect Management on his study that weighs the relationship between the stock market and Congress... Read more... |  | NO MAN'S LIFE, LIBERTY, OR PROPERTY IS SAFE WHILE CONGRESS IS IN SESSION
THE MOTLEY FOOL, BY TMFDeej, MARCH 31, 2009
I came across a funny sidebar in Forbes today. It starts out with the classic line from Mark Twain, "No Man's life, liberty, or property is safe while Congress is in session." The blurb talks about a new mutual fund called the Congressional Effect Fund... Read more... |  | INVESTING WITHOUT POLITICAL RISK
US News, BY Michael Barone, MARCH 23, 2009
I don't give investment advice, but for those who want to avoid political risk, a portfolio manager named Eric Singer has created the Congressional Effect Fund... Read more... |  | DO STOCKS PERFORM BETTER WHEN CONGRESS IS OUT OF SESSION?
Kansas City Star, BY WILLIAM GREINER, April 10th, 2009
UMB CIO William Greiner: Many of us in the financial services industry look for indicators to give us a clue as to what may happen in the markets. In many cases, these indicators are historically based according to how the markets have responded to significant variables in the past...
Read more... |  | OBAMA CAN HELP STOCKS WITH A YEAR-LONG VACATION
Bloomberg, By Kevin Hassett, March 16, 2009
After months of equity-market agony, last week provided a bit of respite. For the week as a whole, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index advanced almost 11 percent. Why did markets finally turn around, at least for a while? There were two big positive forces... Read more... |  | NEW INVESTING STRATEGY: CASH IN ON CONGRESS
SmartMoney, by Donald L. Luskin, March 13, 2009
But high-velocity "change" in government policy on banks, energy, unionization, trade and all the rest means high market volatility, and that means there's upside as well as downside. Do you really want to miss the upside just to avoid missing the downside? Here's one approach you should consider. It's so simple it's almost fiendish... Read more... |  | OBAMA-PELOSI-REID IS PICTURE MARKETS WON'T LIKE
BLOOMBERG, By Amity Shlaes, Oct 23, 2008
A unified government is a nightmare for the markets... Read more... |  | MARKETS PREFER A SPLIT GOVERNMENT
FINANCIAL WEEK, By NICHOLAS RUMMELL. September 2, 2008
The ballroom at the Minneapolis Marriott hotel was packed with delegates, from one man with a shirt boasting at least three dozen McCain and GOP buttons to an investor who recently started a mutual fund that touts the benefits of investing only when Congress is out of session... Read more... |  | CONGRESS KILLS YOUR INVESTMENTS
THE FINANCIAL NEWS, By MARK SKOUSEN, Published: July 18, 2008
Blogger’s note: Mark Skousen has some interesting news for investors: Did you know the congressional schedule can have a big effect on your stocks? Before your skepticism gets the better of you, take a look at Mark’s recent Investment U article below and discover the reasons behind his theory. You might... Read more... |  | WALL STREET; CONGRESS STOPS, THE DOW GOES UP
THE NEW YORK TIMES, By DIANA B. HENRIQUES, Published: May 24, 1992
Mr. Singer acknowledged that Wall Street might be too quick to react when Congress indulges in its habit of "negotiating in the newspapers." But he argued that the market's skittishness is the only logical response to decades of disastrous legislative initiatives, dating back at least to the Smoot-Hawley tariffs that... Read more... |  | WHY STOCKS DO BETTER WHEN CONGRESS IS OUT OF SESSION
THE OXFORD CLUB'S INVESTMENT U, By DR. MARK SKOUSEN, Advisory Panelist, Friday, July 11, 2008
..I'm here at my big show, FreedomFest in Las Vegas, where I discovered one of the most unusual investment strategies I've ever seen. One of the 88 speakers is Eric Singer, long-time Wall Streeter who has created a novel mutual fund that handily beats the market but is only invested about 30% of the year!... Read more... |  | MR. SMITH IN WASHINGTON? SELL!
THE BOSTON GLOBE, By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist, Aug 27, 2008
"ON JULY 5, 1930, a letter from Will Rogers was published in The New York Times.” We sure had a great Fourth, especially after we picked up our morning papers and found that Congress had adjourned the night of the third," it began. "But our enthusiasm was immediately dampened, for the Senate are to meet... Read more... |
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