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April 18, 2018 In Business Events

M·CAM Former Board Colleagues and University of Virginia Darden Fellows Reunite in Melbourne Australia

Dr. David E. Martin, M·CAM Chairman, will join Moustapha Sarhank, Executive Chairman of International Business Associates Group in a moderated conversation about Cross Border Business tonight in Melbourne. At a dinner hosted by Pitcher Partners and organized by the ADC Forum, Mr. Sarhank’s keynote presentation will introduce the nuances of understanding cultural contexts and leadership styles in positioning businesses for international success.

March 28, 2018 In AIR, AIRchive

The Art of David E. Martin

Innovation comes from experimentation and synthesizing through engagement. If the intention is pure, …then purer is the result.  The words are very important in these pictures. After all the art can not be patented if the invention was patented or described in a printed publication prior to it’s application. At the beginning of the year I told an archetypal story for our Q1 staff meeting. We recorded the meeting and sent it to David in order for him to sense the team’s cohesion. David listened to the whole recording which was approximately 3 hours in length. A week later David expressed the influence the story had impressed upon him. He said that it inspired him to engage in the experience of drawing. It had escaped his attention in development of his repertoire of talents we know him for today or did it?

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March 7, 2018 In Business Events

M·CAM’s David Martin in Rwanda and South Africa

M·CAM founder, chairman, and CEO Dr. David E. Martin will attend and participate in two exciting upcoming events in Africa during March and April.

 

At the invitation of the African Union and HE President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Dr. Martin will attend the AfCFTA Business Summit to be held in Kigali, Rwanda on March 20. The summit will mark the signing of the agreement to form the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).

 

Dr. Martin will then participate in the third annual South African Biomedical Engineering Conference (SABEC 2018) presented by Stellenbosch University and the IEEE’s Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. The event will be held from April 4-6 just outside of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

 

See more event details on our M·CAM Facebook page.

January 19, 2018 In Business Events

CNBC IQ 100 Index Powered By M·CAM Reconstituted For 2018

The CNBC IQ 100 Index powered by M·CAM has been reconstituted for the new year! M·CAM’s David Martin​ made an appearance on CNBC​’s Squawk Box this morning to discuss who’s in and who’s out and why the top-weighted components perform so well.

 

The IQ 100 consistently outperformed the S&P 500 last year. We’re looking forward to more great things to come in 2018!

 

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January 3, 2018 In Business Events, CNBC IQ100 Archive

Telecom among laggards

Telecom among laggards from CNBC.

Telecom among laggards

1:48 PM ET Wed, 3 Jan 2018

The CNBC IQ 100, up 20% for one year. It’s an index tracking big-cap companies that get most of their revenue from their own intellectual property. Today’s leaders include IBM, Oracle and General Motors. The laggards Verizon, Kimberly Clark and AT&T

January 2, 2018 In Business Events, CNBC IQ100 Archive

A new stock index with a tech hook that’s beating the Dow and S&P

Valuing intellectual property from CNBC.

Innovation pays off for index investing in IP — and beating S&P

David Spiegel | @dwspiegel

The CNBC IQ 100 gained 6.8 percent in the first quarter, outpacing the S&P 500‘s 5.5 percent gain. CNBC’s exclusive, rules-based index also notched a 1 percent gain in March, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 lost ground.

As part of its rules-based methodology, the index has been re-weighted for the second quarter. Microsoft will remain the highest-weighted company in the index for the second straight quarter. MCAM International, the firm whose proprietary algorithms power the CNBC IQ 100, executed the re-weighting for CNBC.

“Microsoft scores very well across multiple industry sectors, including intelligent cloud applications and management, mobile operating systems, industrial internet and connected devices, and hardware and software for distributed gaming systems,” says MCAM managing director David Pratt.

The companies in the CNBC IQ 100 Index are weighted according to each one’s ability to invest in, develop, control and deploy intellectual property to achieve strategic advantage over competitors. Companies with the highest weighting maintain this type of advantage across multiple industries. Pratt says Microsoft beat out its competitors in a total of 12 distinct business types, more than any other company in the index.

With the re-weighting, chipmaker Micron Technology moves from being the fourth-highest weighted company in the first quarter to being equally weighted with JPMorgan Chase and tied for the second-highest weight in the second quarter. Boeing and Dow Chemical will remain the other companies in the top 5.

The index is re-weighted quarterly, and components are rebalanced annually. Micron was one of 10 companies added to the index at the start of 2017, replacing Intel. Micron shares jumped 30 percent in the first quarter, the biggest gainer among the 100 stocks in the index. ExxonMobil was the index’s biggest loser in the first quarter, with a decline of almost 9.5 percent.