By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Investment professionals like to use a myriad of fancy terms to measure risk. The problem with almost all of them is that they are in no…
Day: April 23, 2018
Ray Dalio on the Odds for Trade and Other Wars
A recent Bloomberg article recounted comments made my Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio on LinkedIn. Here are a few: “Recent geopolitical developments have led me to raise my probabilities of…
Mario Gabelli Isn't Worried About the Passive Trend
During a recent interview with Institutional Investor, Gamco CEO Mario Gabelli shared insights about the current market environment. The article says that Gabelli “isn’t too worried about the trend toward…
Yale Says its Endowment "Crushes" Indexes
The 2017 Yale University annual report argues in favor of active management strategies used by the investment offices of the country’s ivy league schools, according to a recent article in Institutional…
Boring Stocks are Winning
For emerging-market and European equity investors, low-volatility stocks are “paying off by the most in two years,” according to a recent Bloomberg article. “Low volatility—sorting stocks based on the magnitude of…