A report last month by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) states that global debt is expected to rise to a record $277 trillion by the end of this year…
Do Analyst Recommendations Add Value? Maybe
A new study may cast doubt on the conventional wisdom that following analyst buy or sell recommendations isn’t going to pay off for investors. This according to a recent article…
An Investment Manager’s Perspective: Does Value Investing Still Work?
A recent article in The Washington Post outlines “numbers that most retail investors have never heard of” to help explain why value investor Ted Aronson of AJO Partners decided to…
Zweig on the Stock Market: Bubble or Fire?
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, columnist Jason Zweig argues, “Rather than regarding overvalued assets as a bubble, we might consider them a fire. The more it expands and…
Diverse Thinkers Equal Better Results, Study Shows
A new study by researchers at Florida State University shows that the “group decision-making process may work best when members process information a bit differently.” This according to an article…
How London High-Flyer Dodged Covid to End Up on Top
A recent article in The Guardian profiles fund manager Terry Smith and the 10-year anniversary of his Fundsmith Equity fund, now the “biggest and most successful mainstream fund in the…
The Assets We Can’t See
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) There has been a major change in our economy going on for a long time now. The days where the largest firms make physical things…
Why Eliminating Discretion from Quantitative Models is Harder Than You Think (Ep. 57)
There is a tendency for those of us who support quant models to talk about them as if they are these things that just run on autopilot over the long-term…
Bets on U.S. Consumer by Bond Investors are Winning Big
As households are spending less and saving more, investors who bet U.S. consumers will keep paying their debts this year are seeing a windfall. This according to a recent article…
Speculative Stock Bets from Bulls are Near Two-Year High
At the end of October, bullish bets on the U.S. stock market from speculative investors rose to their highest level in almost two years, according to a recent Bloomberg article,…