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David Trainer, Founder & CEO

David Trainer, Founder & CEO

David Trainer, Found & CEO of New Constructs

April 15, 20240Comments

Don’t Believe the Hype

I think you’d be hard pressed to find a single investor who thinks the market is undervalued.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
April 9, 20240Comments

Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Do you ever get the feeling that a decision you’re making in the moment might change your life forever?
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 7, 20240Comments

The Magnitude of the Problem

If everyone is relying on bad research, then does it do an investor any good to use better research? 
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 7, 20240Comments

The Mental Edge Matters Most

A mental run through in what it takes and then a break down of a classic mistake that we caught ahead of time.  
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
Overstated Earnings
November 15, 20230Comments

Equity Model Adjustments For Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Companies

This report explains the differences in our models for real estate investment trust (REIT) companies compared to standard industrial company models.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
August 29, 20230Comments

Equity Model Adjustments for Financial vs. Non-Financial Companies

This report explains why certain calculations in our company valuation models are different for financial companies.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
August 21, 20230Comments

Improving our Total Debt Calculation and Credit Rating

We are improving the Total Debt calculation used in our Credit Ratings for all companies under coverage.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
July 25, 20230Comments

Improving our Models and our Credit Ratings

We have made an improvement to our models for the Total Debt metric used in our Credit Ratings for Financial and REIT companies.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
December 16, 20229Comments

Changes to Gold, Platinum, and (old) Pro Memberships

We are moving access to all of our Model Portfolios and ad-hoc research to the new Professional membership (previously known as Unlimited).
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 31, 20220Comments

Get to Know Our Core Values

At New Constructs, the following values guide everything we do.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
September 13, 20210Comments

Novel Alpha from Truth Stocks & Earnings Distortion: AltHub

To enable managers to easily monetize our new factor, we worked with AltHub to develop three initial strategies.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
September 13, 20210Comments

Novel Alpha from Earnings Distortion: CloudQuant

To enable managers to easily monetize our new factor, we worked with CloudQuant to develop two initial strategies.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
August 20, 20210Comments

Earnings Distortion: The New Value Factor

To enable managers to easily monetize our new factor, we present a long/short market-neutral strategy that generates impressive performance.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 23, 20210Comments

Credit Ratings Are On the Refinitiv Research Distribution Platforms

Our Credit Ratings for 2,800+ companies are now available on Refinitiv’s real-time and aftermarket research distribution platforms
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 11, 20211Comments

Distribution Is Not Enough: New Sources of Investment Insight Will Reshape Modern Investing

The disproportionately higher number of potential data buyers compared to data sellers will create a land grab for data assets.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
March 9, 20210Comments

New Distribution Partner: APEX Clearing

We’re proud to announce that we have established a referral partnership with APEX Clearing to offer a new paradigm for fundamental data and investment research.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
Best Fundamental Data
January 12, 202115Comments

It’s Official: We Offer the Best Fundamental Data in the World

Now, all investors, not just Wall Street insiders, can properly assess corporate profits.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
November 30, 20202Comments

Powering Core Data for IEX Cloud

We're proud to provide our Reported Fundamentals for the Core Data offering from IEX Cloud as part of the next phase of its service offering.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
August 20, 20200Comments

COVID-19 Drives Record Write-downs in 1H2020

Corporate managers appear to be using COVID-19 as a justification for writing down assets in unusually large amounts, aka the “kitchen sink” effect.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
June 23, 20200Comments

New Advisory Board to Expand Sales and Distribution

We're proud to announce the formation of an Advisory Board of FinTech leaders and experts to drive the next stage of our growth and distribution.
by David Trainer, Founder & CEO
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