Dividend Growth and Dividend Yield Strategies
Dividend growth and dividend yield-focused investing approaches, two of the most popular, are not actually separate strategies, according to a recent article in Barron’s. Dividend growth, the article explains, focuses…
Ritholtz on Bulls and Bears
To determine whether you harbor a bullish or bearish viewpoint, writes Bloomberg columnist Barry Ritholtz, requires that you consider the causes of the current stock market rally. Ritholtz, a self-proclaimed…
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] Some Thoughts On Improving the Predictive Value of Morningstar’s Ratings [2] Klarman Warns that Investors…
The Biggest Failure of the Investment Management Industry
By Jack M. Forehand (@practicalquant) — The investment management business has improved dramatically in the past twenty years. The days of brokers selling high priced products to unsuspecting consumers that…
Peter Lynch Protégé Says "Stocks are Fine Today"
Jeff Vinik, who ran Fidelity’s famed Magellan Fund from 1992 until before he left the firm in 1996, became well known for his aggressive investing style, according to a recent…
Ackman Efforts to Boost Pershing Share Price May Not Work
Since May, Bill Ackman’s hedge fund has bought back more than 2.8 million shares of the publicly-traded version of its investment fund, according to a recent Bloomberg article, “essentially taking…
Can Behavioral Economics Be a Channel to Profits?
Psychological biases lead to market overreaction and underreaction, and it can be difficult to discern which is happening at any given point, according to a recent article in Bloomberg. “For…
Lessons Learned from 1929 Crash Predictions
In a 1929, pre-crash speech, esteemed economist Irving Fisher became notorious for declaring that U.S. stock prices had reached “what looks like a permanently high plateau,” writes Jason Zweig of…