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Five Questions: Value Investing with Wes Gray
…extensive piece called, “Alternative Facts about Formulaic Value Investing,” which speaks to many of the arguments against price-to-book investing and systematic value investing as a whole. Your readers might want…
Hulbert: Is the Traditional Method for Measuring Value Stocks Wrong?
In an article for The Wall Street Journal, columnist Mark Hulbert addresses what he describes as the “urgent” question of whether value investing or dead or merely suffering from an…
Quant Investor Cliff Asness Defends Factor-Based Strategies
Prompted by a lackluster performance year, AQR Capital Management founder Cliff Asness wrote a 23-page essay defending his factor-based investing strategies according to a recent Bloomberg article that features an…
The Mental Roadblocks Faced by Investors
…sell an underperforming stock until the price returns to at least the level they paid for it. Herd behavior—”going along with the crowd” is a human tendency, but in investing…
Howard Marks Weighs in on Surviving Market Upheaval
…key. “Investing is not easy; making money isn’t easy,” he said, but “if you are disciplined, if you study, and if you keep your emotions under control, then you can…
Does Mutual Fund Performance-Chasing Deserve its Bad Reputation?
A recent CFA Institute article discusses mutual fund performance-chasing which it says has drawn criticism. To evaluate how performance-chasing is faring in the U.S., the CFA Institute replicated momentum investing…
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] The Underappreciated Role of Luck in Investing [2] Shiller: Stocks Could Rise Higher…
Bogle on Biggest Risk of Next Financial Crisis
…different. Every bear market is different.” But that’s not stopping him from investing, Bogle said, arguing that a buy-and-hold strategy tends to be effective regardless of the economic climate. “If…
The Underappreciated Role of Luck in Investing
…a role in investing that is often misunderstood and underappreciated by most. On August 30th, the day of Warren Buffett’s eighty-eighth birthday, an article in CNBC underscored the legendary investor’s…