By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — In our book, “The Guru Investor: How to Beat the Market Using History’s Best Investment Strategies”, we called Benjamin Graham the “Granddaddy of the…
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Where's the Market Bubble?
Memories of the “frothy” markets of 2000 and 2007 is tempering investors’ enthusiasm, according to The Wall Street Journal. “After an eight-year bull market and the cheapest borrowing costs in…
Podcasts of the Week: Urban, Wilmott & O’Shaughnessy
By Jack Forehand — With so many great investing podcasts out there, it can be difficult to identify the best ones. Through our new Podcasts of the Week segment, I…
Investing Legend Birinyi Remains Bullish on Stocks
As the stock market continues to climb and some investors think about pulling back, Laszlo Birinyi is “going in the opposite direction, placing more bullish trades on the S&P 500,”…
Picking Stocks is Hard, But Picking Growth Might Be Harder
In a recent article for Bloomberg, columnist Nir Kaissar discusses the ongoing debate regarding the challenge of stock picking. He cites a study conducted by University of Arizona professor Hendrick…
Shift to Passive Investing May Not Influence Stocks Like Some Think
By Jack M. Forehand — The massive move investors have made to passive vehicles over the past few years has been truly astounding. With most active managers underperforming their benchmarks…
Value Investing Performance Varies Depending on Measure
If you gauge value investing by evaluating “a portfolio that buys cheap stocks based on price-to-book ratios,” it hasn’t done too well over the past decade, according to a recent…
Are You Prepared for a Stock Market Crash?
Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig takes us back 30 years to Friday, October 1987 when the stock market fell “a record 108.35 points on unprecedented volume of nearly 339…
Richard Thaler's Influence on Investors
Richard Thaler, who was just awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics, “upended how people think about financial markets, helping found the field of behavioral finance,” according to an article in…
Rising Leveraged Debt a Worry
The number of leveraged loans (lending agreements with the most indebted companies in the U.S. and Europe) is high, according to The Wall Street Journal, a “development that investors worry…