A recent Bloomberg article recounted comments made my Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio on LinkedIn. Here are a few: “Recent geopolitical developments have led me to raise my probabilities of…
Mario Gabelli Isn't Worried About the Passive Trend
During a recent interview with Institutional Investor, Gamco CEO Mario Gabelli shared insights about the current market environment. The article says that Gabelli “isn’t too worried about the trend toward…
Yale Says its Endowment "Crushes" Indexes
The 2017 Yale University annual report argues in favor of active management strategies used by the investment offices of the country’s ivy league schools, according to a recent article in Institutional…
Boring Stocks are Winning
For emerging-market and European equity investors, low-volatility stocks are “paying off by the most in two years,” according to a recent Bloomberg article. “Low volatility—sorting stocks based on the magnitude of…
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] Want Consistent Market Outperformance? You May Want to Think Again [2] Jeremy Grantham’s Market…
Hedge Fund Stars Losing Shine, But the Industry is Fine
Despite the fact that hedge funds have “fallen on hard times”, writes columnist Nir Kaissar in a recent Bloomberg article, “don’t shed a tear for the industry just yet.” The…
Are Stock Pickers Ready to Remove Facebook from "FANG"?
Some investors are beginning to question their FANG stock holdings, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. While the FANG stocks have “long risen in lockstep and…
Jeremy Grantham's Market Update
GMO’s Jeremy Grantham predicts that in five years the U.S. market may be 20% lower but that due to a “series of advances and retreats” rather than due to a…
Lessons on How to Prepare for an Unexpected Crisis
A recent Harvard Business Review article outlines findings from a five-year study of “unexpected crises in all sorts of organizations” and interviews with a wide range of professionals “who have…
Want Consistent Market Outperformance? You May Want to Think Again
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — We run over 40 quantitative models at Validea. They run the gamut of investing styles. Any time we can find a model from a…