In an article for MarketWatch, columnist Mark Hulbert reports that “the typical stock-market timer remains extremely pessimistic. That, according to the contrarian’s logic, is a good sign.” Hulbert explains that,…
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Morningstar 2019 Forecasts for Long-Term Stock and Bond Returns
According to a recent article in Morningstar, “even long-term, strategically-minded investors need some type of market-return forecast to craft a financial plan.” Morningstar assembled a compilation of return expectations from…
Computer Models are Bearish
An article in The Wall Street Journal reports that trend-following investment strategies have “gone from bullish to bearish to a degree not seen in a decade, according to an analysis…
Gundlach Favors a Gold Stock Fund
At the Barron’s 2019 Roundtable held last month, Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine Capital shared some insights: According to Gundlach, there has been an expectation by many that the dollar would…
The Cons of Market Cap-Weighting
An article in Morningstar discusses the downside of using market-cap-weighted indexes, noting that within certain markets or strategies this approach can “compromise diversification and intended factor exposure.” “The assumption that…
Five Questions: Modern Monetary Theory with Cullen Roche
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — It has been a long time since inflation was a major issue in the US economy. Unless you have been investing forty years, you have likely…
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] Five Questions: Private Equity in Public Markets with Brian Chingono[2] Emerging Markets Are…
The New "Dogs of the Dow"
The classic, hands-off investing strategy known as the “Dogs of the Dow” kept investors “relatively safe” last year, according to an article in CNBC.com. “If one had bought the 10…
Gundlach Says U.S. Debt is "Horrific"
During his annual “Just Markets” webcast last month, DoubleLine Capital chief investment officer Jeffrey Gundlach called the growth of U.S. national debt a “horrific situation,” likening it to “every household…
Emerging Markets Are a Buy
An article in Fortune reports that, while many including such finance experts as Jeremy Grantham of GMO, Mark Mobius and Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates sing the praises of emerging…