By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Momentum investing can sometimes be looked at as a more speculative type of investing since it involves buying stocks that have gone up the most,…
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Why Use One Value Factor When You Can Use Many
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau)—-Interested in chatting with Justin – let him know.—- Suppose you wanted to find the value stocks in today’s market using common value ratios. Which would you…
Five More Questions: Factor Investing with Jim O’Shaughnessy
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) This is Part II of my interview with Jim O’Shaughnessy. If you missed Part I, you can find it here. In part II, we talk…
Five Questions: Factor Investing with Jim O’Shaughnessy
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) Factor investing has grown dramatically in recent years. But it is far from new. As those of us who invest using factors seek to learn more…
Jim O'Shaughnessy on the Psychology of Investing
In a September interview on the Off the Chain podcast, legendary investor James O’Shaughnessy shared insights on human nature, psychology, and how they manifest in investing decisions. Here are some…
The O'Shaughnessy Approach: Guarding Against Narrative-Loving Humans
An article in CityWire profiles the father-and-son investing duo of Jim and Patrick O’Shaughnessy, chief investment officer and chief executive respectively at quantitative money management firm O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. Jim…
Every Investor Should Read These O'Shaughnessy Tweets
In a recent Bloomberg article, columnist Barry Ritholtz references a provocative tweetstorm by famed investor James O’Shaughnessy regarding “investor ignorance.” “The post, as regular readers know,” writes Ritholtz, “was about…
What Gambling and the Oakland A's Can Teach You about the Importance of Process
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — I have a friend who is an infrequent gambler and won money almost every time he went to the casino. He did it by exclusively playing…
Just Another Stormy Monday? Lessons from Market Disruptions
By John Reese (@guruinvestor) — Thirty years ago, five days after 1987’s infamous Black Monday, Louis Rukeyser shared some calming and timeless words on his evening broadcast of Wall Street…
Podcasts of the Week: Urban, Wilmott & O’Shaughnessy
By Jack Forehand — With so many great investing podcasts out there, it can be difficult to identify the best ones. Through our new Podcasts of the Week segment, I…