A new study by Bank of America has quantified “how large the missed opportunity can be” for investors who try to time the market, according to a recent article in…
The Changing Nature of Momentum
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Investors sometimes want to pigeonhole investing factors. We want to look at a factor and associate a certain type of company with it. Doing so…
The Valuation Gap Between Growth and Value, and How to Play It
A recent article in Barron’s reports that downtrodden value stocks are “finally winning” and the “comeback seems for real.” The wide valuation spread between growth and value, along with the…
For the Economy, It’s All About the Near Future
The jobs numbers reported by the Labor Department earlier this month don’t matter, according to a New York Times article that reports the U.S. economy is at a “momentous inflection…
Aswath Damodaran on Today’s Markets
NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran, known as the “Dean of Valuation” recently spoke to CNBC about today’s markets and the balance of traders and value investors. Here are takeaways from…
Buffett Becomes Sixth Member of $100 Billion Club
Legendary investor Warren Buffett’s net worth has “blown past $100 billion,” according to a recent article in Advisor Perspectives (data from Bloomberg Billionaires Index), making him the sixth member of…
Quantifying The Motley Fool’s Small Cap Growth Investment Strategy (Ep. 79)
The Motley Fool is not known for their quantitative models. They are known for a discretionary growth style of investing that attempts to identify game changing companies and then holds…
Weekly Highlights: What Value Models are Getting Wrong, Dalio on Bonds and Buffett's Winning Chinese Bet
In our weekly summary of the best posts on the Guru Investor blog, Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau discuss the original content we produced and their favorite outside articles we…
Tepper Getting Bullish on Stocks
Earlier this month, Appaloosa Management founder David Tepper told CNBC that it’s very difficult to be bearish on stocks right now and said he believes rates should stabilize in the…
Questions from Robinhood Trader Reveal “Uninformed Equity-Market Participant”
Researchers at Oklahoma State and Emory University have found that “the popularity of zero-commission brokers has attracted a new type of uninformed equity-market participant that in aggregate has negative effects…