It only makes sense to perform a classic, textbook analysis of the publically available information if you are an analyst who controls enough money that a tenth of a percentage point in stock price equals the cost of the time that you spend doing the analysis.
Mr Laxer says his staff are rigorously trained in credit analysis and spend time getting to know their customers.
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This year Mark Aguiar of the Federal Reserve and Erik Hurst of the University of Chicago published an analysis of how people spend their time.
So, spend the time to do a thorough analysis of quarterly reports for all of your portfolio holdings.
Brad Setser, of Roubini Global Economics, an economic-analysis website, is paid to spend two to three hours or so each day blogging as a part of his job.
In 2004, Karl Rove was George W. Bush's numbers whiz, using sophisticated data analysis to decide where and when to spend money.
Most stock investors spend a lot of time using technical or fundamental analysis to pick the best stock, ETF, or fund to buy.
Even if you share the analysis work with other angels, you still must spend time to analyze every potential investment.
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To find out how much time phones spend keeping one ear open, Shin and Zhang conducted an extensive trace-based analysis of real WiFi networks.
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And I see sometimes people will spend a huge amount of time on their big business idea and doing tons of market analysis and reading every article they can and cross-referencing 20 different potential competitors.
An analysis I did of research and development productivity earlier this year found that the amount companies spend per approved drug varies wildly.
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The starting point for any analysis on whether you can afford to retire is a look at how much money you currently spend.
In fact, they plan to spend 20% more on preventing data theft and intrusion in the next year, according to research by the market analysis firm InsightExpress.
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