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Morningstar: Can Active Stock Funds Insulate Investors from Market Downturns?
A recent Morningstar article outlines the firm’s performance analysis of active U.S. equity funds in both “down” and “up” markets over the twenty years ending January 2018 to determine whether…
Morningstar Incorporates Artificial Intelligence into New Ratings
Earlier this month, Morningstar introduced new quantitative ratings that will cover more than 10,000 funds and ETFs. The system will use both machine learning and artificial intelligence to “learn from…
Study Shows CEOs Cut Investment Right Before Equity Vests
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review addresses the question of whether today’s businesses suffer from “short-termism”—more specifically, if CEOs are cutting investment to pump up their company’s short-term…
Harvard Lost Billion Dollar Bet on Tomatoes and Sugar
A recent Bloomberg article offers an overview of the performance of Harvard University’s endowment fund, highlighting the failed efforts by the school’s highly paid money managers to “manage risks other…
Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Fundamentally Change Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Artificial Intelligence is going to change the world. It already has in many ways. But its best days are still ahead of it. So many industries,…
Annie Duke on Investing, Gambling and Decision-Making
In a recent podcast interview with Bloomberg, legendary poker player Annie Duke—who retired from poker in 2012—explains how “getting used to dealing with noisy data” can serve you well in…
Become an Equity Compounder à la Buffett
By John Reese (@guruinvestor) — It’s a simple concept but, over time, it accomplishes extraordinary things. That’s how legendary investor and stock market guru Warren Buffett has described compound interest, a…
Cliff Asness Hedges Regarding Hedge Funds
In a recent Bloomberg article, AQR’s Cliff Asness argues that the opinion pendulum on hedge funds has swung too far, that “all you read about today is that hedge funds…