The ERS Fiduciary Test™ – Seven Steps to Honoring Your Duty
Fiduciaries must answer seven key questions about a company’s financial condition before investing. A fiduciary’s duty is to protect client interests, avoiding speculative decisions that could jeopardize financial security.
The Big 7 Asset Managers Now Use AI
The 7 largest U.S. asset managers, collectively managing $38 trillion in assets, are incorporating AI into their investment advisory services. Goldman Sachs today announced it is “[rolling] out an AI assistant for its employees as artificial intelligence sweeps Wall Street”.
Fannie Mae: A Lesson in Risk and the Importance of Fiduciary Responsibility
Investing without a scientific understanding of risk exposes portfolios to unnecessary losses. According to ERS's Fiduciary Risk Rating, FNMA has always been unsuitable for fiduciaries to own.
Eli Lilly: Valuation Lessons from ERS’s ProfitMap.ai
On 8/30/2024, Eli Lilly’s (LLY) market cap was $864 billion, price $960, and $39 billion TTM revenues. Its P/S was 22. Advisors using ERS’s ProfitMap.ai could have quickly and easily seen “what must happen” for LLY’s price to rise.
Moderna’s Price Decline: ERS’s Data Scientists Predicted This Decline
Moderna’s price on August 9, 2021 was $484.47. Today, 1/13/2025, it traded as low as $32.03 - a loss of 93%. Equity Risk Sciences has 9 proprietary ratings. On August 9, 2021, all of ERS’s ratings were extremely negative.
Make A Quantum Leap In Your Investment Performance
Investment professionals have a fiduciary duty to analyze both the upside potential of a stock and its downside risks. And the most reliable method to fulfill this responsibility is by using data sciences, statistics and AI.
Questions About Apple
Has Apple become a stronger, less leveraged and more liquid company than it was 3 years ago? What are the primary concerns?
In Major Declines, Safer Stocks Fall Less and Recover Quicker
Market risks are concerning; America's top 10 firms command $21 trillion in market value. For conservative investors, what constitutes a reasonable P/E ratio? Many of today's equity funds have concentrated their investors' holdings in these richly valued stocks, which carry an average P/E of 35.
The Very Dirty Dozen – January 7, 2025
Equity Risk Sciences identified the "Very Dirty Dozen" – a group of 12 stocks with exceptionally high risk according to our proprietary risk ratings.
Fiduciary Risk Assessment
My goal is to help fiduciaries realize that their primary responsibility as a fiduciary is to protect their clients’ assets from significant losses AND clearly demonstrate that the only effective way to achieve and fulfill their responsibilities is by measuring and rating the probability of a stock falling and remaining low.