Shaw Capital Management - Investment Innovation & Excellence

Researchers at Shaw Capital Asset Management provide the research and advisory leverage to make your goals a reality.

By continually researching and evaluating market opportunities, investing defines those products that reflect your needs and focus our recommendations.
To understand your goals and needs, we answer questions regarding your current investment status and objectives.

• Is your wealth under invested, focused too highly in one area or non-liquid in existing businesses?
• Does your return balance with the risks in your investments?
• Do you have a specific time frame in which to meet certain goals?
• Does management of your portfolio leave balanced time for other activities and business?
• Do you have specific interest or knowledge in a particular industry that interests you?

Answers to these questions allow us to design an investment strategy that matches your needs. If you have specific plans or family goals you wish to prepare for that may influence the nature of the investment. If you have been following a particular industry but just need greater knowledge and research to invest wisely, Shaw Capital Asset Management can assist.
The New Economy and the Internet have provided an explosion of knowledge and opportunity. But how to pull all the pieces of the puzzle together? What is required is a dedicated professional research staff documenting and correlating the many factors of the market on a daily basis, to watch for trends, changes in position, and breaking news.
Researchers at Shaw Capital Asset Management provide just this type of research and advisory leverage to make your goals a reality. The Shaw Capital Asset Management research team uses a leveraged knowledge strategy. Upon breaking news or changes in market stance, additional researchers are allocated to make early analysis of the situation. If the research team agrees that a trend is leading to imminent changes in the market or a specific offering, a full review of the situation is made and, if qualified, an opportunity is provided to our clients. It is this ability to allocate resources in a timely fashion to breaking events that allows us to leverage a small initial indicator into a well-researched opportunity for our investors.
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Special Situation InvestmentsShortened Time Frame of Results

The yields for Special Situation investments are usually higher than for long-term strategic capital investments. Risk factors also increase with these types of investments. The keys are timing, details revealed by research of related businesses and suppliers, and an overall evaluation of the situation. One thing is usually certain, and that is the shortened time frame of results. By sequencing or if available, overlapping several opportunities, the aggregate yield can excel beyond more common paths of investment.
Special Situation opportunities often arise from many factors:

• EventsA stock may be undervalued and is expected to rise due to an imminent turn of favourable events.
• Trading IndicatorsStock that fluctuates significantly in daily trading. In this case, it is important to understand the reasons for the heavy trading and fluctuations, and see if surrounding factors point to a favourable end gain. If a temporary settling point occurs, this may lead to an additional opportunity for an undervalued situation.
  
  Another factor is whether the fluctuation has crossed the threshold to become reported and market aware. The Shaw Capital Asset Management team of researchers use fast response time and look at many factors to fully qualify a special opportunity.
• FundamentalsFundamental analysis to determine the company's position in the market and recent announcements.
• Related CompaniesFollow-up research to supplier companies and affiliates to see if related announcements have been made such as pending orders or increased demand. An alternate catalyst for creating a special investment would be news of orders on hold creating a temporary negative market perception and a depressed and undervalued stock price.
• NewsBad news temporarily depressing a stocks value with an anticipated upswing.
• Economic SectorsSurrounding factors in the economy or market segment indirectly affecting market performance. Is the company positioned to weather the storm and emerge prepared to take advantage of newly freed investment money?
• Inside NewsNews of change in management or takeover bids. What effect will these changes have once they are completed?
• Insider TradingTransactions inside the company by officers. This insider trading on the open market is required by law to be disclosed to SEC. Such actions may signal imminent change in a companies operation and may by its nature trigger increase or decreases in value.
• Price HistoryEspecially when compared to competitors and industry averages, price history is a primary indicator. Is the stock currently undervalued but with strong fundamental factors signaling a likely recovery?
• Industry ShareViewed over time and relative to industry averages for growth, is the company ahead of growth, pushing the industry envelope, but perhaps behind in profits causing depressed value, all the while poising itself for an eventual recovery and dominant position?
• ManagementDiscussions with management to determine in more detail and with greater understanding the current position.
• Financial Position A review of liabilities and collateral backing to evaluate the downside risk. Once the factors are determined and their relationship and timing to industry trends for the anticipated time for positive returns understood, the Special Situation investment is announced to participating customers in this area of opportunity.