Bitcoin ETF Could Be Real in 2021
While exchange-traded cryptocurrency ETFs have yet to be allowed in the U.S. due to concerns about “potential manipulation and thin liquidity,” a recent Bloomberg article reports that, “with the world’s…
GameStop Mania Leads to Scrutiny on Online Broker Payments
The recent GameStop saga is “prompting calls for regulators to reconsider a decades-old practice in the U.S. stock market” in which trading firms pay brokerages for the right to execute…
Ark CEO Cathie Wood Talks ‘Deep Value’
In a recent interview with CNBC, Ark founder and CEO Cathie Wood discusses “deep value” investing and the potential impact of rising rates. Here are some key takeaways from the…
Weekly Highlights: Dot-com Parallels, Technology as an Asset Class & Blending Investment Factors
In our weekly summary of the best posts on the Guru Investor blog, Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau discuss the original content we produced and their favorite outside articles we…
Yale, Harvard and Others Buying Bitcoin
Some large university endowments have been “quietly buying cryptocurrency for the past year or so through accounts held at Coinbase and other exchanges,” according to a recent article in Coindesk.…
Some Funds Doubled Returns Last Year, But Is That Good News?
More than two dozen actively managed funds doubled their returns in 2020, a remarkable accomplishment but not necessarily a sign that active management is back. This according to a recent…
Some Practical Ways to Look at Blending Factors
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) Those of us who run quant portfolios sometimes like to prove how smart we are. We like to throw out advanced statistical concepts that show how well…
Trading Giant Citadel in Spotlight After GameStop Frenzy
While the GameStop story revealed how small investors were pumping up the stock in an attempt to defy Wall Street, a recent article in The Wall Street Journal reports that…