North Carolina Technology Stock Advisor Selects Top Five Competitors for 2012 Investment Performance Comparison: Monday, January 23, 2012

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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) January 23, 2012 -- Raleigh, N.C. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, a portfolio manager based in Raleigh, N. C., released the stock picks for 2012 of what he considers to be the best five stock pickers in America.

Vass released his own Top 10 Tech Stocks for 2012 on January 9, 2012.

“When we begin our search for stocks, we define 9 high tech value chains, where we believe most of America’s innovation occurs in sustaining product innovations and radical disruptive technology commercialization,” said Vass. “Our patent is based upon an economic theory of technology innovation that we developed called Structural Evolutionary Regional Economic Theory (SERET).”
“We suspect that our theory of stock selection leads to superior investment performance over the long term compared to any of our top five competitors,” said Vass. “We think the general investing public would benefit from our comparison over the course of 2012 in order to judge for themselves,” he added.
“I consider these five competitors to be the best in the world at what they do in selecting stocks for their clients, and I have a great deal of respect for their history and tradition of representing their clients,” said Vass

The competitor stock lists are based on published reports and press releases and all stocks are priced s of close on January 3, 2012. Stock price monitoring and graphs are provided by Google Finance, an online data service.
Barclays Top 2012 Technology Picks, Report compiled by Meena Krishnamsetty, WSJ Money Watch, December 20, 2011. Barclays stocks selected by Stuart Linde.




James Glassman, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance: James Glassman's 10 Picks for 2012, January edition. “These ten investing suggestions should do well for your portfolio in the New Year and beyond.”

Goldman Sachs' 9 Best Stocks for 2012 By Frank Byrt. The Street, November 2011. “BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Goldman Sachs(GS_) analysts have nine technology stocks on their short list for now, with six-month price targets that are as high as 61%.”














JP Morgan's Top Tech Stocks for 2012. By Rebecca Lipman, Kapitall, The Motley Fool Posted 10:58AM 12/27/11 Investing. “J.P Morgan's Noelle V. Grainger published a report on December 9th that took a look at top stocks in several technology sectors, such as software, computer services & IT consulting, semiconductor capital equipment, and alternative energy.”



Top Technology Stocks Recommended By UBS. By Insider Monkey in Seeking Alpha. January 11, 2012.

“UBS Investment Research recently published a report entitled “U.S. Research” on December 30, 2011. It isn’t publicly available but we will summarize its main points. The report lists their top stock ideas for 2012. In this article, we will discuss their most-preferred stock ideas for the Technology sector.”

Vass noted that one stock in particular, Qualcomm, had been selected by three of his competitors. “I have followed Qualcomm in one of my stock watch portfolios for many years, he said, but it does not meet all of my selection criteria.”
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About Thomas Vass: Vass is fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account. For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856.

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