Ryan C. Fuhrmann, CFA, began his investment career at Northern Trust Corporation in Chicago. He is actively involved with the CFA Institute, an association of investment professionals, and has even co-authored a portion of their curriculum.
In addition to his CFA certification, he holds a degree in business from the University of Wisconsin and a MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ryan adheres to a value-based investing viewpoint that successful companies generate sustainable cash flow for their owners and earn returns on invested capital far in excess of those costs of capital. In his spare time, Ryan enjoys reading, traveling and catching as many live music shows and movies as possible.
Analyst Articles
Back in 1950, a young investor by the name of Warren Buffett discovered that his mentor Benjamin Graham was chairman of a company named Government Employees Insurance Company, or GEICO for short. Shortly thereafter, he hopped on a train to go visit the company at its headquarters in Washington D.C. Read More
I have been talking a lot about buying “forever” stocks. These are the stocks I think you can buy, hold, and basically forget about — all without losing much sleep at night. When you buy this exclusive class of stocks and let them grow year over year,… Read More
The market is taking it on the chin this week, which was to be expected, according to technical analysts. Just last week, I noted that history tells us the Dow Jones Industrial Average would need to move back to recent lows (known as a “retest”). Sure enough,… Read More
Back in the fall of 2008, virtually every equity-focused mutual fund was falling in value. The selloff was most keenly felt in many closed-end funds (CEFs). Not only did these funds see their portfolio of investments drop in value, but the fund price… Read More
The list of investing mistakes I’ve seen (and as a stock broker in the go-go 1990s and early 2000s, I had an opportunity to see plenty of them) is longer than I care to recall. Over-committing, over-trading, sector concentration, you name it — I saw it all as so many… Read More
Investors are always on the prowl for stocks that would conceivably appeal to Berkshire Hathaway’s (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) Warren Buffett. He likes established businesses that throw off ample cash flow and have a strong moat to keep competition at bay. We can speculate… Read More
On Monday, Aug. 8, the S&P 500 took an 80-point dive. That was a buying opportunity. Now, I don’t mean it was a buying opportunity in the traditional “stocks rise in the long term” idea, meaning you should buy on any dip. #-ad_banner-#Truth… Read More
The late, great alternative journalist Hunter S. Thompson once wrote “… when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Thompson would’ve loved the current market conditions. From a once-unthinkable downgrade of U.S. Treasury bonds and the ensuing global turmoil created by the… Read More
When Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (Nasdaq: GMCR) started selling its single-cup coffee brewing systems (known as the Keurig) five years ago, few expected the company to single-handedly revolutionize the coffee industry. These days, former rivals are looking to partner with the company to help get a piece… Read More
Investors are well aware of many of the reasons for having gold as part of their portfolio. Lately, these reasons have swirled around macroeconomic concerns — the U.S. debt rating downgrade, possible sovereign defaults in the eurozone and the possibility of more money printing… Read More
