…as size, value, momentum, low volatility, and so on,” Gray writes. “Unfortunately, academic researchers are having difficulty finding the secret sauce associated with smart beta. For us, this finding is…
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Ben Graham, Index Fund Fan?
Would Benjamin Graham, the man known as “the father of value investing” and a pioneer in security analysis, have liked plain, generic index funds? In a recent column, Jason Zweig,…
Corporate Buybacks Largest Buyer of Stock
…the per-share earnings in a way that enhances the pay of chief executives.” Lazonick said, “companies use a phony ideology saying that if you maximize your shareholder value you somehow…
Where A Bond Guru Is Finding Value
Top bond fund manager Stephen Smith thinks that three key factors — oil’s decline, interest rate declines, and tumbling non-US currencies — will lead to better-than-expected global growth. Smith tells…
Peter Lynch And High-Dividend Stocks
…famously developed the PE-to-growth ratio as a way to value stocks, dividing a stock’s P/E ratio by its long-term growth rate. His idea was that when a company was producing…
Want Growth? Try Retailers, Banks, and Networking Stocks
Every day, Validea uses John Reese’s Guru Strategy investing models to rank dozens of industries using a myriad of financial and fundamental data. The rankings include a value index, a…
Siegel: Fed "Mostly Gets It"
…is fair value for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and he thinks we could reach that level by year-end. But he also says we seem to be in a “choppy…
Gabelli Talks Trucking, Media, Pets, And More
Top value investor Mario Gabelli says he is high on media stocks and equities exposed to European trucking. In a recent interview with CNBC, Gabelli says he likes Sony, the…
Here's Why You Shouldn't Overlook A Struggling Business
…which is the main driver for the stock to increase in value. Holding a stock for a year will give you the bulk of the return when exercising deep value…
Listen To Buffett On Buybacks
A myriad of companies in recent years have touted the fact that they’ve been buying back their own shares to increase shareholder value. But in a recent piece for Forbes.com,…