…and anemic growth seldom depends on a single factor such as public debt.” They added that, “However, our study of crises shows that public obligations are often hidden and significantly…
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Dreman on How To Combat High-Frequency Trading
…Dow or S&P 500 rapidly drops about 2%, or buying if it suddenly rises the same amount,” Dreman writes. High-frequency traders were a big factor in the 2010 “Flash Crash”,…
Key Lessons From The Gurus
…500, some have outperformed the S&P 500 by a factor of five to one.” Interestingly, one of the top performers has been the Benjamin Graham-inspired model, which is based on…
Which Value Metric Offers The Most Value?
…plus dividend yield.) Of course, raw returns aren’t everything; risk is also a big factor to consider, so O’Shaughnessy looks at factors like standard deviation of returns, biggest annual declines,…
Hulbert: "New Era" of Higher Correlations a Fallacy
…of those factors — not because of some fundamental market change. “We’re in a highly interdependent world all the time,” Kristin Forbes, an MIT professor and one of the researchers…
Fisher: The Economic Data Is Better than Many Think
…negatives, too. “But even in periods of the most robust global growth there will be weak spots,” he says. “That so many positive factors exist is bullish. That they are…
The Lynch Approach: GARP, PEGs, and Profits
…Superior Industries International, Inc. (SUP) OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (OVTI) Rudolph Technologies, Inc. (RTEC) Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (AEIS) The Stomach’s The Key While it’s not a quantitative factor, there is…
Stocks for the Long Run?
…of variability) is 17% per year,” he writes. “But they claim that when they use different statistical techniques that allow them to factor in uncertainty about average future returns, the…
Sonders on "The Story No One Is Telling"
…good for stocks. “Unless we’re wrong and the economy doesn’t exit the soft patch soon, US corporations are likely to be a positive factor for the supply and demand for…
Greenblatt on Why Fund Managers Fail
…small stocks. Another factor that hinders fund performance: portfolio size. Many fund managers, Greenblatt says, tend to put together funds with dozens of stocks that end up mirroring their benchmarks….