Prior to returning to self-employment, Tim ran International Investment Conferences, a producer of mining investment networking events. He came into the position thanks to a blend of experience in the media and mining industries.
He gained a working knowledge of the mining industry as well as commercial Internet applications during a stint at the Chamber of Mines of South Africa.
He moved into the media world as the first Internet Editor for the Sunday Times. From there he went on to be founding editor of a number of publications. He was also a founding director of Moneyweb, a media venture traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 1999.
Tim and his family emigrated from South Africa in ...More 2000 after winning the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery.
Tim has a graduate degree in International Relations, and a Diploma in Business Administration. He read for the degrees at Wits University after completing compulsory military service just prior to the cessation of the Angolan war.
Complementing his focus on mining finance and investment writing, Tim also has numerous investigative credits to his name. These include uncovering secret audits of the UN Oil for Food Programme, and documenting a secret visit to South Africa by North Korean officials.
Alpha Found Beyond Past Performance
Turning discarded information into profitable intelligence
Each year billions of words are recorded in reports and presentations directed at investors. The reports are mostly ignored. Yet they contain valuable insights about the habits, training, philosophies, inclinations, ethics, and ...More
performance of money managers and corporate executives who are stewards for trillions of dollars of shareholder wealth.
Alpha Found summarizes, analyzes and ranks written investment reports. Alpha Found is the only information service providing investors with systematic access to the intellect of the people entrusted with their investments.
Written financial and corporate reports can be a more reliable future performance indicator than educational qualifications and professional certifications. Alpha Found provides the tools for investors to rapidly and efficiently consider more than past performance and ratio analysis when deciding to buy, sell or hold.
Words mean something
Numeric financial reporting has devolved into cloned outputs that are available as commodities from any number of research outlets. By contrast, written investor reporting has no practical bulk research and analysis outlet even though such information provides a window to author paradigms and potential future decisions.
The content, structure, composition and presentation of written reports is also highly correlated with attitudes toward investors and investment performance. Good stewards exhibit original thinking supported by independent research, wide reading, and skilled writing untouched by public relations ‘handling’. Unsurprisingly, a striking gap exists in the qualitative difference between reports prepared for investor consumption.
That gap is indicative of actual performance. Recent content analysis studies by Wharton School of Business and the University of Nebraska support Alpha Found’s model.
Due diligence or superficial compliance?
Traditional investment analysis has become moribund, hemmed in by regulatory restraints and compliance fears. The result has been an erosion of investor confidence in bank and media generated research.
Alpha Found provides serious investors with the means to go beyond superficial compliance driven financial reporting. The Alpha Found system allows rapid assimilation of large volumes of written financial reporting to produce actionable intelligence.
Actionable investor intelligence
Alpha Found addresses the inability of traditional investor information services to critically analyze written reports and make adjustments for the full context that affects investment decisions and outcomes.
He gained a working knowledge of the mining industry as well as commercial Internet applications during a stint at the Chamber of Mines of South Africa.
He moved into the media world as the first Internet Editor for the Sunday Times. From there he went on to be founding editor of a number of publications. He was also a founding director of Moneyweb, a media venture traded on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange since 1999.
Tim and his family emigrated from South Africa in ...More