…for whatever reason have a higher utility for risk than typical institutional investors.” This higher risk appetite, he argues, is fueling underperformance in a popular investing style called low volatility….
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A Look at the Valuation of the Major Investing Factors
…tool. Although my natural inclination towards value investing leads me to focus on it more than I should, it is obviously only one of the major investing factors. So I…
To Beat the Best Investors, Know When to Sell
…appear skilled at their jobs: “You can take the head of some sovereign wealth fund out to dinner and explain to her why you’re a genius for investing in some…
Charlie Munger’s Investing Basics
A recent Morningstar article outlines four investing principles outlined in the book “Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor” that echo the early value investing concepts of Benjamin Graham. The book “explains…
The Downside of Conviction
Conviction is probably the most important thing in investing. Regardless of the investment strategy you utilize, the ability to stick with it during the challenging periods is required to achieve…
William Green: Takeaways from Greatest Investor Interviews
…Markets and Life” chronicles observations and lessons he gathered from discussions with some of the greatest investing minds of our time. Here are highlights from Green’s comments: “If you’re going…
Kaissar: Value Investing and the Price-to-Book Ratio
…investing, its reversal raised doubts not only about its merit relative to other value measures but about value investing itself,” Kaissar writes. He attributes the degradation of P/B as a…
Morningstar: My Pile of “Too Hard” Investments is Pretty Big
…portfolio composed largely of broad-market index-tracking investments.” Leveraged investing: Citing a current trend in which wealthy investors are borrowing against stock and bond holdings to buy more assets, Benz argues,…
Combining Growth and Momentum Investing with O'Neil Global's Randy Watts and WisdomTree's Jeremy Schwartz
Many investors tend to think growth and momentum investing are highly aligned with each other. But as we have seen recently, with many momentum funds making an aggressive move into…
Are Equities an Inflation Hedge?
…it suggests investing in “trend-following, commodities-focused funds or commodity trading advisors (CTAs),” explaining, “If gold prices rise due to higher inflation, these funds will jump on the trend sooner or…