Inflation is at a 40-year high, and as rising prices threaten the purchasing strength of assets, investors are scrambling to protect their portfolios. But there’s no one perfect way to…
Evidence Shows Value Has Beaten Growth For Longer Than We Thought
The value effect—the pattern of value stocks outperforming growth stocks—has been around for a lot longer than most people realize, contends an article in MarketWatch, and there is historical data…
Of All The Top Moneymakers In This Market, Buffett Owns 3 Of Them
Warren Buffett and a handful of other investors have found the way to make money in the S&P 500, an article in Investor’s Business Daily posits. As the top holders…
Small Growth Funds Had a Great Run But Their Investors Did Not
An article in CityWireUSA quotes the maxim “the more volatile the asset class, the worse the investor behavior,” and examines the active funds in Morningstar’s Small Growth category to back…
Commodities Gauges Underpin Goldman’s Bullish Stance
A top Goldman Sachs analyst says “we’re out of everything” and that commodities futures contracts trading are in backwardation at rates nots seen since 1997, reports an article in Bloomberg.…
As Value Outperforms, Einhorn Avoids Most of the Carnage
It’s no secret that David Einhorn, founder of Greenlight Capital, favors value stocks, and that approach paid off in January as Greenlight fell only 0.6% amidst market turmoil, reports Yahoo!…
A Look at Changing Factor Exposures in an Evolving Market
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — The market has seen some major changes since the 2020 market bottom. It would have been very difficult to predict the massive rally we have seen…
The Market’s Turmoil Is The Ultimate Test Of Reality
With the S&P 500 index down 10% below its last high, the Nasdaq-100 index off almost 15% from its November peak, and the Russell 2000 Index of smaller companies down…
Bernstein’s Playbook To Beat The Bubble
As the 10-year tech bubble continues to deflate, Richard Bernstein of the asset management firm Richard Bernstein Associates, has a simple solution for investors to cushion their portfolios. Bernstein sees…
An Inside Look at the GameStop Story and the Revolution That Wasn't With Spencer Jakab
The GameStop short squeeze in early 2021 was the talk of the investing world. It had all the parts of a great story. It had some investors making massive profits,…