At the Greenwich Economic Forum last November, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio expressed concern that most stock investors are ill-prepared to handle the next bear market. This according to an…
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Flat Yield Curve Inverted in December
An article published in Bloomberg early last month reported that “a section of the U.S. Treasuries yield curve just inverted for the first time in more than a decade,” with…
Asia Shines Among Emerging Market Peers
A Bloomberg article reports that Asia’s economies have outperformed their peers, with Malaysia being at the top of the list. The article notes that Asia’s economies have “stronger buffers against…
Investors Getting More Comfortable with Factor Investing
An article in WealthManagement reports that factor investing has gained acceptance and an increase in demand, as evidenced by an Invesco study that involved interviews with key decision makers of…
Ivy League Endowments Have Lagged 60/40 Portfolios for a Decade
An article in Institutional Investor reveals the findings of a new study that shows how the nation’s elite school endowments have trailed a passive portfolio of 60 percent stocks and…
AXA Sees "Glorious Chaos" in Credit Bear Market
According to AXA investment Managers, “corporate bonds have fallen so hard they’re officially in a bear market,” says an article in Bloomberg, adding that it “may not be a bad…
Five Questions: Multi-Factor Investing with Liqian Ren
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Factor Investing has proven itself over long periods of time. But there is a price that has to be paid for its outperformance. The individual factors…
Morgan Housel on the Psychology of Money
In an episode of The Motley Fool radio show, host Chris Hill talked to The Collaborative Fund’s Morgan Housel about the psychology of investing and how humans behave when it…
The Death of the Hedge Fund Industry Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
An article in Bloomberg reports that, despite the closure of some bigger name hedge funds, the overall number of liquidations fell in 2018. What may have seemed like an omen for…
U.S. Leveraged Loan Market Sinking
The top-performing U.S. debt market is “showing a few cracks,” according to an article in Bloomberg that reports that it is priced at its lowest level since 2016. “And there…