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AQR's Jeremy Getson is Best-Connected Man in Hedge Funds
…their niche in factor investing and alternative beta “before most institutional investors really knew what they were.” AQR co-founder David Kabiller, who assembled the sales team that includes Getson, said…
Growth Vs. Value Index Debate Has Ended
The evolutionary shift from active to passive investing has ended the feud between growth and value investors, according to a recent Bloomberg article which argues that “growth and value are…
Barry Ritholtz on the Bull Market's Birthday
…“Over and over I hear people declaring that the bull market is aging and risky…with investing sages telling people to sell stock and hold more cash. Instead, of course, investors…
Ed Thorp Interview Highlights
…the compounding that Warren Buffett touts as so important in investing. On stock picking, Thorp explains that investors interested in enjoying returns without spending lot of time do well with…
Lessons From a Quantitative Investing Conference
…2 – The Evidence That Factor Investing Works is Overwhelming, and Our Behavior is Part of the Reason. The fact that everyone at a factor investing conference thinks that factor…
Finding Deep Value Stocks with the Acquirer's Multiple
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — In 2005, Joel Greenblatt, a successful hedge fund manager, published an incredibly simple book on disciplined value investing. The book, The Little Book that…
Housel on the Irony of Luck
In a recent article for the Collaborative Fund, Morgan Housel contrasts luck and risk as they relate to investing, arguing “you cannot understand one without appreciating the other.” “This is…
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] Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Fundamentally Change Investing [2] Become an Equity Compounder à…
Harvard Lost Billion Dollar Bet on Tomatoes and Sugar
…schools avoided.” The article reports that Jane Mendillo, who headed the endowment six years ago, led Harvard at that time into one of its “most daring foreign adventures” by investing…