By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) Early in my career, I thought I knew everything. I started investing during a period where the types of strategies we run, many of which…
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Seven Lessons from Mr. Market in 2020
…gains, while allowing investors to sleep well at night. They say diversification is the only free lunch in investing and it’s often underrated, but this year is a good example…
The Toxic Cloud Behind the Stock Recovery
…The research reveals a “surprising development,” the article notes: “Pension managers turn out to be enthusiastic about ESG investing. The article concludes with some broader observations that emerged from the…
Value Investing Still Works and Here’s Why
…why you don’t need to fret about value investing” outlining the following points: Value investing should not be confused with the simple purchase of stocks with low earnings multiples. The…
Eight Timeless Lessons All Investors Can Learn From Warren Buffett (Ep. 60)
…variety of ways, many of which your average investor could never copy. But Buffett’s greatest contribution to the investing world likely isn’t his returns or his approach to picking stocks….
Five Lessons from Our Most Downloaded Podcasts of 2020
…of the year was with Jim O’Shaughnessy of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management. Jim offered many great investing lessons in the interview, but my favorite part had nothing to do with investing….
Ten Amazing Facts On Tesla As It Zooms Into The S&P 500
…We typically focus our articles on many other investing topics, but given the magnitude of this change I thought it would be worthy to change things up this week and…
Lessons From Our First Year of Podcasting (Ep. 58)
We have reached the one year anniversary of the podcast so we wanted to take a break from our regular investing episodes for a week and reflect back on our…
An Investment Manager’s Perspective: Does Value Investing Still Work?
A recent article in The Washington Post outlines “numbers that most retail investors have never heard of” to help explain why value investor Ted Aronson of AJO Partners decided to…
Zweig on the Stock Market: Bubble or Fire?
…to oxygen, fuel, and heat: Oxygen = marketability, or the ease of buying and selling an asset. Fuel = money and credit. “Low interest rates make investing with borrowed money…