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In the latest episode of Ticker Take on YouTube, I spoke with Madden, chief investment officer at First Avenue Investment Counsel, about how his team searches for companies that score well across multiple investment disciplines.
Fundamentals. Technicals. Macro trends. Quantitative signals.
For veteran investor Brian Madden, the answer is simple. The best ideas tend to show up in all of them.
In the latest episode of Ticker Take on YouTube, I spoke with Madden, chief investment officer at First Avenue Investment Counsel, about how his team searches for companies that score well across multiple investment disciplines.
Rather than focusing on a single style like growth or value, Madden describes the firm’s process as “idea agnostic.” In other words, good ideas can originate anywhere. But before a stock makes its way into a portfolio, it has to hold up across several different lenses.
Those lenses include fundamental analysis, quantitative models, technical price trends, and macro or thematic tailwinds.

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