An article in CNBC.com reports that hedge fund Paul Tudor Jones says the Fed will stop hiking rates in the coming year. “The one thing I would say is there’s…
The Best Fund Managers of 2018
The Wall Street Journal published its Winner’s Circle list of the top stock-fund managers for last year, noting that despite the S&P 500 having the worst December since 1931 and…
The Case Against Value Stocks
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Confirmation bias is one of the biggest problems in investing. We all have a set of core beliefs, and we tend to surround ourselves with people…
2019 Predictions Will Miss the Mark, or Worse
A Bloomberg article by columnist Barry Ritholtz notes that this is the time of year when prognostications surface from strategists and analysts but asserts that they are, “for the most…
Private Equity Returns More Illusion than Reality
A CFA Institute article offers analysis of private equity returns in the U.S. (using data from Cambridge Associates). Using the data, the Institute created a U.S. Private Equity Index the…
Most Read Posts on Validea’s Guru Investor
Below are links to our most popular posts for this week on Validea’s Guru Investor blog.- [1] Some Thoughts on Multi-Factor Investing [2] The O’Shaughnessy Approach: Guarding Against Narrative-Loving Humans…
Some Thoughts on Multi-Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Last week, I interviewed Liqian Ren of WisdomTree for our Five Questions series about multi-factor investing. The topics we covered were fairly complex so I wanted to…
Potential and Risk of Personal Data Usage by Investors
“The explosive growth of digital data, along with better tools to analyze and store it, has jump-started a once-niche industry that packages under-the-radar information for investors,” according to an article…
Money Managers to Track in 2019
An article in The Wall Street Journal quips, “The people running your money have a lot to prove in 2019,” arguing that hedge fund managers will have to show that…
Marko Kolanovic Says Quant Investing Has Limits
An article in Bloomberg last month profiled an interview with JPMorgan Chase global head of macro quantitative and derivatives research Marko Kolanovic, who has gained a following in the investment…