By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — I had the privilege to attend the Democratize Quant conference last week put on by Wes Gray and the team at Alpha Architect. The conference allowed…
Author: Validea
Most Read Posts on Validea’s Guru Investor
Below are links to our most popular posts for this week on Validea’s Guru Investor blog. [1] Finding Deep Value Stocks with the Acquirer’s Multiple [2] Highest-Paid CEOs Tend to Run…
Jeffrey Gundlach's Market Worries
DoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach, who “sounded alarms about housing in 2006” doesn’t see any disasters in the offing, according to a recent article in Barron’s. “But that’s no reason to…
Investors Shouldn't be Fooled by Market Calm
Now isn’t the time for investors to get comfortable, says a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. The underlying economic environment, it says, is “muddier” than it was in January,…
Yield Gap Between Stocks and Bonds May Be Misleading
Bonds are now offering legitimate competition to stocks for the first time in years, according to a recent article in Bloomberg. Yields on the ten-year Treasury are now more than 100…
Private Equity Performance Numbers May Undermine Credibility
Internal rate of return (IRR), the key performance measure of private equity firms, is at the risk of being “massaged in a way that undermines the industry’s credibility and adds…
U.S. Recession in the Offing?
A recent Bloomberg article reports that an economic contraction could be coming as soon as next year, citing the Fed, the flattening yield curve, corporate leverage and tariffs as contributing…
The Nine-Year-Old Bull Still Has Momentum
The U.S. bull market, which turned nine on March 9th, is still showing momentum, despite the fact that it has been called the “most hated rally ever,” according to a…
Finding Deep Value Stocks with the Acquirer's Multiple
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — In 2005, Joel Greenblatt, a successful hedge fund manager, published an incredibly simple book on disciplined value investing. The book, The Little Book that…
Housel on the Irony of Luck
In a recent article for the Collaborative Fund, Morgan Housel contrasts luck and risk as they relate to investing, arguing “you cannot understand one without appreciating the other.” “This is…