The March 2015 edition of the Investor Advisory Service newsletter has been published with three stock recommendations. Subscribers please visit the Subscribers area of the website to access the issue. Print subscribers should expect to receive their issues by U.S. Mail within five business days.

In the February 2014 issue of the Investor Advisory Service, we featured America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT), a small national used-car dealership. How has this stock pick performed in the year since our analysts recommended it?

Subscribers should log in and download the Special Interim Update for February/March 2015 as soon as possible. This special update of the Investor Advisory Service includes company news items that have been announced since the publication of the February issue. As many companies report their quarterly earnings during this period, this update is intended to deliver more timely information on changes in the conditions of the companies tracked by the IAS and to aid subscribers in evaluating those changes to improve their portfolios as circumstances may warrant. There is one sale recommendation in this issue. These news items will also be included in the March 2015 issue.

The January 2015 issue of the SmallCap Informer has been published and is available for subscribers to download from the website.

The February 2015 edition of the Investor Advisory Service newsletter has been published with three stock recommendations and our 2015 Outlook: Global Economies, Oil, & Currency. Subscribers please visit the Subscribers area of the website to access the issue. Print subscribers should expect to receive their issues by U.S. Mail within five business days.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Investor Advisory Service stock newsletter has been nationally recognized as one of the top-performing investing newsletters in the U.S. by the Hulbert Financial Digest.

One year ago, our IAS analysts highlighted Gentex (NASDAQ: GNTX). How has the stock of this large automobile equipment maker performed since then? 

The December 2014 issue of the SmallCap Informer has been released. Subscribers may access the issue on the website.

The January 2015 issue of the Investor Advisory Service newsletter has been published and is available for immediate download by subscribers. In this issue, our analysts present three top picks to kick off 2015. One is new to the IAS universe, while the other two are favorites that offer good value at their current valuations.

We're recommending one sale and two buys in the November issue of the SmallCap Informer, just published.

In the December issue of the award-winning Investor Advisory Service newsletter, our analysts have laid out three stock picks with detailed analyses for subscribers to review.

Getting organized is the first step to finding clarity in the complex maze of available financial information. Equity Research Service, ICLUBcentral’s newest research tool for investors, offers a path through the jungle, with a streamlined process for analyzing stocks. Users may save hours of painstaking work and minimize the steps needed to gather relevant data about companies, with the option to customize results in many different convenient formats.

In each issue of SmallCap Informer, the editors recommend a few stocks for consideration, as well as stocks to sell. In the September issue, based on detailed research, the SCI editors signaled two promising small-cap stocks and one stock to sell. It’s never fun to give up on a once-promising company, but SCI is diligent in explaining the reasons when it decides to no longer track a stock.

Investors focusing on small-cap stocks know the power of differentiation in a portfolio. A smart mix of smaller stocks can offset broad trends that affect more mainstream stocks. Although small-cap stocks typically are pricier than mid-cap and large-cap companies, historically they offer a higher return than larger companies. From 1926 through 2012, the smallest fifth of all stocks returned 11.5% versus 9.7% for the largest fifth, says The Wall Street Journal, citing Wharton School economist Jeremy Siegel. Seen from another perspective, the small-cap index, the Russell 2000, surged 163% from January 2000 through Oct. 10 (including dividends), while the S&P 500 returned only 75% during the same period, the WSJ reports.

Investor Advisory Service recently won honors again in the Hulbert Financial Digest’s list of top-performing investment newsletters over the past decade. In “The Virtues of Consistency,” an annual cover story disclosing those on the Investment Newsletter Honor Roll, HFD editor Mark Hulbert listed the top performers and criteria for selection.