While the financial crisis of 2007 spurred a lot of questions regarding the role that quantitative investment strategies played in the market’s drop, these strategies continue to evolve, writes Validea…
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Buffett Could Benefit Big with Trump
President-elect Trump’s proposed corporate tax reform could be great news for Warren Buffett, according to an article in last week’s Barron’s. A drop in the tax rate from the current…
Active Investors Get a Chance to Shine
From the investor’s standpoint, a low level of unemployment isn’t necessarily good news, says a recent Bloomberg article. However, it can bode well for active versus passive investors. When more…
Beware of Rosy Stock Market Predictions
We’ve written before about the precarious nature of forecasts, and an article in last week’s Wall Street Journal sings the same tune—that investors shouldn’t get “carried away” with predictions that…
More Upside in International Stocks
The continued grind of the bull market may not be justified, according to an article in this week’s Investment News. In fact, the article, written by Joe Smith, senior market strategist…
The Realities of Pretend Investing
At the end of November, The New York Times ran an article by columnist and CFA Carl Richards that addresses how the tendency to invest based on emotion rather than…
Where Are the Women Fund Managers?
A Morningstar study published last year found that in the U.S. women run a measly 2% of the mutual fund industry’s assets, reports an article in last week’s Barron’s. The…
"Irrational Exuberance" Revisited
This past Monday marks the twenty-year anniversary of former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan’s famous speech in which he used the phrase in reference to then-stretched equity valuations. In last week’s…
U.S. Stocks Show Increased Global Footprint
The post-election market rally coupled with the strength of the U.S. dollar has increased the share of U.S. stocks as a percentage of the global economy, according to this week’s…
The Trump Rally, Market Timing and Picks
The post-election surge in stocks underscores the risk inherent in trying to time the market. In a recent article for TheStreet, Validea CEO John Reese discusses how investors, by “falling…