A Barron’s article from July outlines an interview with Charles De Vaulx of International Value Advisers (IVA) in which the fund manager offers insights on various topics related to the…
Will Factor Investing Kill Hedge Funds?
Last month, the Financial Times ran a lengthy piece on factor investing that discusses to what degree it poses a threat to the hedge fund industry. The article recalls a controversial…
Quants Find Profit in ETF Anomaly
Quant strategists at Deutsche Bank have found that investors can “beat equity benchmarks by building portfolios out of stocks that get whipped around the most when exchange-traded funds rebalance.” This…
Validea's Most Read Posts
Below are links to our most popular posts for this week on Validea’s Guru Investor blog. [1] The Dangers of Headline Investing [2] Value Investing Strategies with Good Outcomes [3] Gundlach: A…
Signals from the U.S. Yield Curve
The difference between the two-and ten-year Treasury yield is the narrowest since 2007, a signal that “the market thinks the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate increases, which are driving short-term yields higher,…
Value Investing Strategies with Good Outcomes
A recent article in The Globe and Mail shares the findings of back-testing eight different value ratios using the S&P 500 index. Specifically, the study involved creating 20-stock portfolios using…
The Dangers of Headline Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — It was November 2016. After improbably winning the Republican nomination, Donald Trump was a significant underdog in the general election. Almost every pundit gave him very…
Former Fed Policy Makers Voice Concern About Next Crisis
A recent Bloomberg article reports that Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Henry Paulson “all voiced varying degrees of concern about America’s ability to combat another financial meltdown 10 years after…
Financial Reporting for the Digital Age
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review discusses the need for financial statements to capture the value of modern tech companies, sharing insights on the subject that were gathered…
Gundlach: A Recession is Getting Closer
A recent Barron’s article featured an interview with DoubleLine Capital founder Jeffrey Gundlach, who says the U.S. is getting closer to a recession. Here are some highlights: The economy and markets:…