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| The Story Behind Validea |
Validea.ca founder John Reese, like many investors, has always been actively involved in managing his own money. Over the years, John became increasingly frustrated with underperforming fund managers, and with the difficulty of obtaining quality financial information to help him make investment decisions. As a result, John began to read the books of many of the world's most widely known and successful investors to become more familiar with the criteria these investors use to select quality stocks.
John was very impressed by the stock-picking strategies he was reading about, but became frustrated with the difficulty in finding and utilizing the data required to put these methodologies into practical use. Using his background in computer science and artificial technology, however, John was able to transform the strategies he'd read about in the gurus' books into usable, intelligent computer models. These models allowed him to run hundreds of stocks through the same criteria the gurus used in a matter of seconds.
Then one day, it dawned on John that through the Internet, he could not only make it easier for himself to analyze stocks and get investment ideas using these world-renowned strategies; he could also share this knowledge with other investors similar to him. John hired several employees who shared his enthusiasm for the idea, and Validea.com was formed.
Once the website was up and running in the US, John was immediately able to see results. And not only did the site's tools help him select profitable investments -- they also allowed him and users to see detailed analyses of how the stock-selection strategies reached their grade for each stock on a criteria-by-criteria basis. Users of Validea.com could thus find out why thousands of different companies passed or failed each guru-based methodology.
Despite his positive investment results using the site, John realized there was one piece of the puzzle missing. He wanted concrete historical performance results to show how the methodologies actually perform. Based on that realization, John, with the help of some computer programmers, ran extensive historical studies on each of the nine methodologies found on the site, comparing them against the broader US stock market. The results affirmed what his own investment results had been telling him: These strategies really do work! And since we launched our U.S model portfolios in 2003, they have substantially outperformed the market, further re-affirming this fact. You don't have to take our word for it though. See the returns of our US model portfolios for yourself.
In August of 2010, Validea Canada was released. Validea Canada offers analysis of the Canadian equity market using the same proven models that we have been following in the US since 2003. Using Validea.ca, users can now see the highest-rated Canadian stocks based on the approaches of investing legends like Warren Buffett, Ben Graham, Peter Lynch and Joel Greenblatt.
Every day, those of us who work at Validea work hard not to lose sight of our original goal: to make successful investing easier and more understandable for the average person. To that end, if you have any feedback that you feel would make our site better, please email us at info@validea.ca. We appreciate your comments, and wish you a future filled with successful investments
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