The annual charity auction for lunch with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett raised $3.3 million from an anonymous bidder, up from $2.6 million last year. This according to a recent…
Pimco Expects U.S. Treasury Yields to Peak at 3.5%
As the Fed continues to raise rates, Pimco’s Robert Mead (co-head of Asia-Pacific) says U.S. 10-year Treasury yields will stay in the 3 to 3.5% range for the rest of…
How Companies Fool Investors with Profits Fad
Companies may be worth less than investors think, writes columnist Jason Zweig in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Zweig explains that investors look to earnings-per-share to assess corporate profits…
Indexing Will Fail Investors in Coming Decade
A recent article in MarketWatch argues that equity investors are facing market conditions which will “no longer deliver acceptable returns”, even for index investors. “A fundamentally different, outside-the-box approach to…
CEO Pay and Performance Often Mis-Matched
“The best-paid CEOs don’t necessarily run the best-performing companies,” according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. The article explains that, although corporate boards try to link top…
Factor Performance in First Quarter
A recent article in Advisor Perspectives provides an overview of the performance of various factors in the first quarter of 2018. Noting several developments that led to increased market volatility…
Common Mistakes in Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — With the release of Michael Batnick’s new book “Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments” last week, the topic of mistakes in investing has…
Buffett's Proposed $3 Billion Uber Deal Crumbled
Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett reportedly proposed investing $3 billion in Uber Technologies earlier this year, but disagreements over terms took the deal off the table. This according to a…
Rob Arnott on Indexing
A recent article in Barron’s outlines recent research by “modern-day Socrates” Rob Arnott, founder of Research Affiliates, which suggests “index-fund managers are willfully ignoring low-hanging alpha—the ability to beat the…
Active and Passive Investors: Which Perform Better?
Morningstar’s director of global ETF research, Ben Johnson, recently shared research regarding the relative performance of active and passive investors with Christine Benz. Morningstar’s data on domestic equity cash flow-weighted…