WorldQuant's New Fund Underperformed

The first quant fund established for outside investors by the Connecticut-based firm WorldQuant has lagged its benchmark from the outset, according to an article in Bloomberg. The quant stock fund…

An Analysis of Buffett's Alpha

A 2018 paper published in the Financial Analyst’s Journal analyzes  the alpha created by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway. The introduction, by authors Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller, and Lasse Heje Pedersen…

Persistence Results, But Not Really

Even though most people in the investment world are consistently told that past performance is not indicative of future results, some claims regarding performance of private equity firms can be…