In yesterday’s Forbes, Validea CEO John Reese profiles the mathematician and author Edward Thorp, describing him as “masterful at integrating his vast knowledge of probability and statistics into the world…
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Jason Zweig: Use Simple Tests Before Investing in a Quant Fund
In a recent article for the Wall Street Journal, Jason Zweig offers some tips on how an investor can devise his own quant strategy. “Perhaps it is cheaper to learn…
Study Raises Questions About Factor Significance
A new study has found that most of the market anomalies academics have identified are not statistically significant, says a recent Wall Street Journal article. After analyzing 447 anomalies (the…
Biggest Small Cap Outflow in a Decade
Small-caps have seen the biggest outflow in 10 years, according to a recent Bloomberg article. The article says that after being “spooked by the steepest selloff in the domestically focused…
Shiller Says Bull Could Run for a While
When asked for his outlook on the market in a recent CNBC interview, Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller says investors should keep some stocks in their portfolio because the market “could…
Hulbert on When to Fire Your Investment Adviser
Market-lagging performance, writes Mark Hulbert in a recent MarketWatch article, is not a good enough reason to fire your adviser. It’s extremely difficult, Hulbert says, to beat the market by…
Four Cybersecurity Sector Picks
This month’s widespread and destructive ransomware attack crippled thousands of businesses worldwide, writes Validea CEO John Reese in a recent article for TheStreet.com. Fortunately, the attack didn’t penetrate the U.S.…
Hedge Fund Coatue Invests in Data Science
Hedge funds continue their push into “big data” analysis to land trading opportunities, and Coatue Management LLC is no exception, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal.…
Value Investors Must Accept Stretches of Underperformance
Even though value investors have seen lackluster performance over the past ten years, panelists at a last month’s Morningstar Investment Conference argue this isn’t an indication that this approach is…
“Superstocks” Like Amazon are Hard to Find
Scoring a winning stock such as Amazon is exceedingly hard to do, writes Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article. While it might not be useless to try,…