| Strategy
Investors with J. Lamarck need three basic investment principles:
1) Knowledge of the market.
We all agree that biotechnology is one of the most promising
investment opportunities, but if you want to invest in this
sector you need profound knowledge of the companies, their
products and their management.
Since 1995 analysts of J. Lamarck have build up great expertise
in this market and will guide you away from making wrong
investment decisions in seemingly promising situations towards
investments with solid growth prospective.
2) Buy and hold! Good advice, but who listens?
Millions of people follow market-timing systems intended
to get them into the market when stock prices are going up
and out again before stocks go down. Sometimes people invent
their own systems. More often, they follow a newsletter writer
or investment guru. These gurus publish their best predictions
to ''prove'' how right they have been. You never hear about
the forecasts that were wrong.
Dow Jones, AMEX-NASDAQ or S&P500 too low or too high?
It just doesn’t matter.
The rule for the successful investor is to make a strategic
investment decision and hold on to it. We are not saying
you cannot make adjustments within your portfolio if a particular
stock had a nice run up, but try not to time the market in
order to get in or out. Piles of historical data show that
most market-timers cannot beat a strategy of buy and hold.
Over the long run, you are better off making a sound strategic
decision and stick with it for ten or twenty years.
3) Stock picking
Being selective is very important in setting up an investment
portfolio. Our analyst select companies with strong fundamentals
that meet our company investment criteria:
i. We look for fast-growing biotech companies with a broad
technology platform, that should be able to become market
leader in their specific market.
ii. We are attracted by a strong and experienced management
team that is able to guarantee a company culture of trust
and mutual respect.
ii. We will only invest in regular stock markets; our clients
can control their portfolio, at any time, checking the quotes
on our web site or in the
newspapers.
iii. The companies should have a number of corporate alliances/partners
and excellent contacts with the academic world in order to
guarantee scientific talent to the company.
The directors believe that this complete portfolio approach
will lead to significant less risk and more upside potential
for our investors.
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