…possibility of Q reaching extreme levels,” he says, noting that the Q Ratio reached a low of 0.29 in both 1948 and 1974. It was also 0.33 or lower from…
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Gross, Lynch, Malkiel: Varied Perspectives on Current Market
…out of equity mutual funds like never before. And they should, I believe, stop doing that because, invariably, investors take their money out near the bottom and put their money…
Good Quant, Bad Quant
…financial bust and market crash. Those who follow the hedge fund industry, where quants may have gained the most attention, have heard the horror stories of Goldman Sachs’s Global Alpha…
Buffett, Berkshire Focusing on U.S.
…buyouts when U.S. opportunities were scarce,” notes Bloomberg. “With rival bidders cut off from funds by the credit crunch and benchmark stock indexes down more than 40 percent from a…
Kass: It's Dinner Time
…not low enough to signal a bottom — can mislead. In his most recent post, though, he offers some more reasons: the hedge fund industry is at its lowest net…
Hussman: Good Values, but No Bottom
John Hussman, whose Strategic Growth and Strategic Total Return funds were some of 2008’s best, is warning that major volatility may soon return to the stock market. “I suspect that…
Tilson & Heins: How You Can Be a Stock "Lion" Like Templeton
…great John Templeton excelled at this, note Tilson and Heins. Templeton “frequently placed firm buy orders on stocks he would be happy to own at, say, 40% below their then-current…
Buffett Bonanza: Government vs. Fear, Bank Prognosis, and Why You Should Still 'Buy American'
…given the low cost of funds. But Buffett says banks “need to get back to banking.” Buffett wishes he had written the New York Times “Buy American” piece a few…
Zweig Strategy: 10 Growth Investment Ideas for a Tough Market
…issue, I outlined the strategy from the famous growth oriented investor, Martin Zweig. Below you will find an excerpt from the newsletter along with a handful of top scoring stock…
Dorfman: Market Performance after Waterfall Declines – up 24% Over Next 12 Months
…action during and after ‘waterfall declines’ — sudden drops of 20 percent or more in a few days or weeks — tend to follow a pattern, featuring three phases. First…