Kennedy's investment strategy is to ride the momentum of usually small- or micro-cap stocks that break to a new significant high and then continue to put in new highs over the next six-week period.
What this means is that investors stand the best chance of participating in this renewed merger and acquisition cycle by investing in small to midsize companies, ormicro, small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds run by investment managers with a value approach.
But if a fund focused on small-cap or micro-cap stocks were to manage billions of dollars, given the lesser degree of liquidity for these smaller stocks, that would be problematic.
You might be able to leverage the funds for your micro business orsmall company to buy equipment or inventory or hire a person to help you grow to the next level.
In Africa, the corporate citizenship programs for companies like Shell, De Beers and Monsanto consist mostly of small-scale social projects like health clinics or micro-credit schemes.
The easiest method to take advantage of this effect is to go long a small- or microcap ETF such as iShares Russell Microcap ( IWC) or PowerShares Zacks Micro Cap ( PZI) or mutual fund Bridgway UltraSmall Company. ( BRSIX).