A Place to Hide from Volatility Today was not as bad as early futures and European markets would portend. The S&P cut its losses to 0.74% and the NASDAQ was down only 0.26%. But as we recommended last month the healthcare sector looks good for relative safety. Drug stocks that pay dividends and large cap […]
2011 A Huge Year for Life Science Investing As of mid-year the Rayno Life Science Biopharmaceutical Portfolio was up over 20% beating most ETF’s and Life Science mutual funds. Our two recommended biotech ETF’s for balancing and overweighting were FBT up 13.3% and IBB up 15.3%. Returns could have been much higher with rebalancing strategies […]
11/18 Added Dendreon (DNDN) at $8.00 level.IBB is preferred biotech ETF. 11/15/11 Comments: Under review: ImmunoGen (IMGN) Dropped FBT an ETF in favor of IBB or possibly XBI. For bullish equity allocation in Tech and Biotech use QQQ. 6/20/11 NASDAQ (2632) Market stabilizing after 7% correction.QQQ down <1%. IBB up 10% YTD. Mid-cap biopharms are up […]
JPMorgan Healthcare Conference Monday briefing: Rod Raynovich Webcast at: https://events.jpmorgan.com Biotech Valuations at trough levels About 4000 attendees consisting of mutual and hedge fund investors,VC’s, Company executives and their PR legions registered the first day of the conference that eventually is expected to see 5500 by Thursday. With many markets weak and suffering from the […]
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Rod Raynovich is the founder of Raygent Associates, a management consulting firm providing business development and strategic marketing services in the life science and medical device area. He publishes his thoughts and analysis on the biotech industry at www.raygent.com.