CHUO-KU, Japan -- TCL Associates, a leading equity researcher, on Thursday announced the launching of its American Conviction Buy List, a collection of US traded stocks which TCL Associates expects to perform better than Nasdaq Composite Index, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and S&P 500 Index over the coming 12 month period.

TCL Associates has a robust history of excellence in research and the list underscores the premium long ideas developed by TCL Associates’ integral equity research teams. “We are thrilled to launch our Conviction Buy List, and are expecting it will further validate TCL Associates’ high quality research. Our team is comprised of the most highly experienced analysts who are focused on efficiently bringing their highest conviction recommendations to our clients,” said Mr Souta Tochigi, Chairman of the Board of Directors at TCL Associates.

“Our focus is to build an idea house with only Wall Street´s tier one talent; in line with TCL Associates’ global sector strengths. The conviction buy list represents our best ideas for investment and demonstrates to our clients and the market that we are engaged in differentiating ourselves by distributing our high quality research,” said Mr Satou Ren an Executive Director at TCL Associates in Tokyo.

TCL Associates´ American Conviction Buy List will generally contain 15 to 30 stocks, and will be re-balanced periodically with the deletion or addition of any stock.

General Motors Co. (GM), Ford Motor Co. (F), Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA), Apple Inc. (AAPL), Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY), Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN), Netflix Inc. (NFLX), Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (KORS), CBS Corp. (CBS), Herbalife Ltd. (HLF), Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Nike Inc. (NKE), Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (ETAK)