Philippine money manager Wilson Sy says his strategy of betting on lesser-known companies outside his benchmark index has been upended by the flood of cash into passive index funds, a…
Day: November 13, 2019
Dividends Can Help When Value Trails Growth
Dividend stocks maybe help “narrow the performance gap for a value investor,” according to a recent article in Barron’s. But the article adds, “whether a company pays a dividend isn’t…
Who Needs a Hedge Fund? Not Jeffrey Vinik
After relaunching Vinik Asset Management earlier this year (it was closed in 2013), Jeffrey Vinik found that it was much harder to raise money than he anticipated, according to a…
AI, Big Data and Finance
A recent article in CFA Institute addresses the question of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) might impact the world of investing. Investment professionals have watched AI emerge with what the article…