Welcome to Asensio Archives. Our web site is a depository of the research reports produced by Asensio & Company, Inc. ("Asensio") under the leadership of Manuel Asensio. The purpose of the site is to provide investors, legislators, regulators and journalists with free and easy access to the extensive Manuel Asensio research collection. As part of a short-selling advocacy project, Manuel Asensio would like the Asensio short selling experiences to serve as educational resources. The Manuel Asensio research product reveals short-selling’s valuable contribution to the securities industry. As a leading short-seller, Manuel Asensio sought to expose overvalued companies. The information Manuel Asensio collected through his research and published on Asensio.com web site helped to prevent investors from making uninformed investment decisions. It also provided journalists with important information and helped legislators and regulators identify necessary reforms to the securities laws.
The Manuel Asensio research reports and many other materials found at asensioarchives.com are the product of asensio.com, a web site established in 1996 by Asensio. Manuel Asensio employed a particular brand of short selling, involving a unique combination of proprietary trading and publication. Manuel Asensio founded Asensio and served as the company's Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Offer. From 1996-2003, Manuel Asensio published 314 reports on 30 companies, each of which it shorted. For each short selling example, Manuel Asensio issued a press release announcing its short position and published an initial research report. The reports clearly outlined the issues surrounding the companies and provided the Manuel Asensio stock price expectations, highlighting the differences between these expectations and the expectations of analysts advocating the companies.
The ultimate motivation behind these short selling activities was profit. Manuel Asensio's recommendations led to incredible returns during its eight years of existence. Each of the companies Manuel Asensio shorted were hot stocks in hot industries, including biotech, software, internet security, gaming, wireless communications, wireless microchips, storage technology, gold mining, alternative energy, and other exciting growing industries. Each investment contradicted the work of prevailing Wall Street analysts. For example, Manuel Asensio reports on Winstar led to the demise of Jack Grubman, one of the most famous Wall Street analysts of his day.
The tremendous success of Manuel Asensio also benefited the securities industry itself. Despite its reputation for disruption, activist short selling helps create a fair and balanced marketplace by facilitating accurate price valuation. Knocking down fraudulent companies is an ugly trade, but it is even uglier to sit back and do nothing while analysts and fraudulent companies promote valueless stocks. Asensio Archives encourages researchers and other interested parties to examine the legacy of Manuel Asensio deep research method and internet reporting.
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