A report published last month by investment management firm Research Affiliates, LLC addresses the question of why value investing (a smart-beta strategy using value indicators such as CAPE or price-earnings…
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Zweig on the Impact of Index Funds
Last month marked the fortieth birthday of the first index fund (launched by John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group) and the anniversary has triggered a lot of discussion and…
Are the Markets Really Efficient?
Warren Buffett has always been open about his approach to investing, singing the praises of focusing on business fundamentals to find strong stocks at good prices. However, in a recent…
Investing Principles Part V: Buying Small Cap Stocks
In our final installment of discussion of the Tweedy Browne publication What Has Worked In Investing, we’ll take a look at the relative performance of small-cap versus large cap stocks.…
Are Value Investors Really "Valuation" Investors?
Even though there has been a lot of commentary around current high stock valuations against lackluster earnings growth for the S&P 500, it is “neither practical or precise” for an…
Investing Principles Part IV: Buying Stocks That Have Declined in Price
As our discussion of the Tweedy Browne publication What Has Worked In Investing continues, we’re going to look at the strategy of investing in poorly performing stocks both domestically and…
Want Private Equity Like Returns? Try a Levered Small Cap Stock Approach.
One young hedge-fund manager says that an investor can enjoy the same hefty returns touted by private-equity firms (through the purchase, turnaround and resale of troubled companies) through buying highly…
Investing Principles Part III: Buying Stocks Where the Insiders Are Buying
In a continuation of our discussion around the Tweedy Browne publication What Has Worked In Investing we’re going to address the approach related to investing with the “inner circle” and…
Jack Bogle on the Future of Index Investing
When Jack Bogle created the first index mutual fund for individual investors (Vanguard 500) forty years ago, he probably didn’t imagine that it would grow to 20 million investor-clients and…
Potential Downsides in Ultra-Easy Monetary Policy
The Fed’s implementation of monetary easing after the financial crisis, while intended to bolster a teetering economy, is instead leading us into a Pay-the-Piper scenario, says Brian Singer, head of…