Meet Mycroft

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Mycroft continues to write daily on his Motley Fool boards profile.  Stay current with his stock picks and catch him here writing as “XMF Mycroft” with his daily blog posts with Motley Fool CAPS!

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FireRock’s Director of Investment Research, Peter Psaras, has spent many years reading, writing, researching and quantifying the markets.  Not only has he learned from some of the most known and well regarded investors of our time, he has also worked with some of the best on Wall Street creating a global presence for himself. 

Formally known as TMF Mycroft at the Motley Fool, Peter had a professional career as a writer and a research analyst.  His presence was felt and gained popularity as he wrote about compelling topics that grabbed the attention of his audience.  As this trend continued, he was able to foster his own following in the investment community and much of his work appeared in many of the Fool’s online publications.FireRock Research would like to share with you some of Mycroft’s passionate and insightful work. Here is an opportunity for you to learn more about Mycroft’s value/growth investment philosophies in the following articles: Secrets of Beating the Bear Market, Warren Buffett’s Secret Weapon, and many more! __________________________________________________________________________________

Invest Like the Fool’s Mycroft

In this article, Peter explains how and why he got involved and became interested in the markets and explains Drip Investing.  He explains the power of getting in early at a young age and provides great big brand companies like Coca-Cola, Heinz, and of course, Berkshire Hathaway.  To read the article in full, click below.

Published: February 1, 2001
Invest Like the Fool’s Mycroft

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Fisher’s Investing Criteria

In this two part series, Peter co-authors a piece on Phillip Fisher with Chris Rugaber.  This article dissects each of Fisher’s 15 points based on his evaluation philosophy from his book Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits.  Peter and Chris use real companies as examples to make their points crystal clear.  To read the article in full, click below.

Published: January 18, 2001
Fisher’s Investing Criteria - Part 1
Fisher’s Investing Criteria - Part 2

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Warren Buffett’s Secret Weapon

Peter co-authors another article with long time friend John Del Vecchio about Warren Buffett and his keen sense to pick up on great demographic plays.  This article dives deeper to explain the importance of studying and understanding demographic trends of a company’s client before making a purchase.  The bottom line is, know your customer!  To read the article in full, click below.

Published: February 13, 2001
Warren Buffett’s Secret Weapon

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Meet Ten Investing Masters

Peter leads the way with this spread with The Motley Fool’s own, Tom Gardner.  They go into detail and provide insights to who they believe are the 10 Masters of Investing.  Included here are summaries of Warren Buffett, Phillip Carret, Peter Lynch, Sir John Templeton to provide and global perspective, and many more.  To read the article in full, click below.

Published: November 9, 2000
Meet Ten Investing Masters

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Tom Gardner on Big Company Mistakes

In this one, Peter supports Tom Gardner to weigh in on companies that have made extreme mistakes.  They touch on and describe a number of companies from a diverse vertical sample of industries including mentions of Starbucks, Nokia, Amazon.com, Nike, and Gillette.  To read the article in full, click below.

Published: September 28, 2000
Tom Gardner on Big Company Mistakes

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Secrets of Beating the Bear Market

As some would argue, we are upon a bear market in the US right now.   Peter has been through this before and in this article he shares his “Secrets” with you.  He explains and talks about points with companies that have great EOS (Economies Of Scale) and talks tricks, like dollar cost averaging and much more.  To read the article in full, click below.

Published: March 13, 2001
Secrets of Beating the Bear Market

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Here are additional articles written by the former TMF Mycroft:

3G Wireless Future Is Long Way Off

Safe Rather Than Sorry

Why Great Management Matters

Brokerage Secrets Revealed

Words from a Wise Fool

A Foolish Treat - Nokia 

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