The European markets got off to a very strong start in 2015. On the 22nd of January, the ECB announced that it’s bringing out the big guns to reverse the continent’s slide into economic stagnation. From March 2015 onwards, it will will buy €60 billion of assets - including government, institutional and private sector bonds - and will do so until at least September 2016. With these extreme measures it hopes to get the eurozone growing again and increase inflation - which is currently negative - to its target of 2%.

This decision had a significantly positive impact on the European stock markets, with the STOXX600 increasing 8...[more]

After the great returns in 2013 (+39,7% for the European portfolio and +43,2% in North-America) the markets started the year at a generally overvalued level. It was a very difficult time for value investors to beat the market indices. Nevertheless, our European portfolio and US portfolio have done very well and grown by 7 and 7,1%.

European portfolio

The European portfolio managed to beat the STOXX600 for a 5th consecutive year. Here’s the overview of the last 5 years:

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We just launched a new screen that allows everyone to build a fixed income strategy based on a quantitative investment model based on stocks instead of bonds. Not only does it allow you to grow your principal but it also gives you a pay raise every year so you can retire without having to worry about inflation!

Click here to learn more about this screen.

After many months of work we have released the new version of the site. One of the main complaints in the past was that the screener was too expensive for small investors. We have listened to you and redesigned our platform from scratch, allowing 2 new types of subscriptions:

• Small investor: with this subscription we want to give all investors the opportunity to switch from using free screeners with dubious data quality to our fully featured high quality database and screening tool. We offer this subscription at a bargain price of €15/month or €149/year, lower than any competitor.
• Professional: More experienced value investors and professionals like to broaden their search but often limit to a specific continent...[more]