

In addition, it gives me technical insight into some important industries including automation, software, semiconductors, solar energy, communications, and other areas of 21 st century growth.įor individual stocks, I often emphasize growth-at-a-reasonable-price companies with a blend of growth and value that enjoy wide economic moats and strong returns on invested capital, or companies that I expect to turn around and achieve that state. I’ve found that taking an engineer’s approach to the markets has given me a unique and emotionally detached way of looking at things layer by layer with a strong quantitative background, which has thus far been quite successful. My investment approach combines my experience with finance and engineering. I began my engineering career as an electronics engineer in the automation and simulation industries about a decade ago, and gradually shifted towards finance and management, eventually coming to run the day-to-day operations of an engineering facility and a team of engineers and technicians, including overseeing the facility’s finances and approving major technical decisions.


I have 15 years of investing experience, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and a master’s degree in engineering management with a focus on engineering economics and financial modeling. My name is Lyn Alden Schwartzer, and I’ll be covering North American stocks and international ETFs here. I take a conservative, low-turnover, long-term approach to investing for the base of my portfolio, with some opportunistic trading around the edges. There are some new people here, so I want to formally introduce myself and the work I’ll do here.
