Dividend based investing strategies are very popular among investors. The ability to receive regular cash payments from the equities they own and a belief that dividend paying stocks outperform the…
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Breaking Down the Investment Strategy of Legendary Fund Manager Peter Lynch (Ep. 64)
Peter Lynch is one of the most successful mutual fund managers of all time. Lynch guided Fidelity Investment’s Magellan Fund to a 29.2 percent average annual return from 1977 until…
The Importance of Expectations in Investing (Ep. 63)
There is a common misconception that a good company is always a good investment. But that sometimes isn’t the case. The reason for that comes down to the role that…
The Biggest Lessons From Our Five Most Popular Interviews of 2020 (Ep. 61)
When we started our podcast late last year, we were hoping we could create something that would be educational and informative for people who follow our content. We were hoping…
Eight Timeless Lessons All Investors Can Learn From Warren Buffett (Ep. 60)
No investor can match the combination of Warren Buffett’s annual returns and the period of time he has been able to sustain them. Buffett has generated those returns in a…
Interview: Making Sense of Fed Intervention, Fiscal Stimulus and MMT with Cullen Roche
The way economic policy is implemented has undergone some major changes in the past decade. The Federal Reserve’s response to the Great Financial Crisis, and the continued quantitative easing in…
Twin Momentum: Combining Fundamental and Price Momentum Together In One Quantitative Model (Ep. 59)
The academic research supporting the momentum factor is very strong. But most of that research focuses on the momentum in a stock’s price. An interesting research paper written by Dashan…
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…
Why Eliminating Discretion from Quantitative Models is Harder Than You Think (Ep. 57)
There is a tendency for those of us who support quant models to talk about them as if they are these things that just run on autopilot over the long-term…
Why You Shouldn’t Try To Copy Warren Buffett (Ep. 55)
Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors of all time. He has also been very generous in sharing the lessons he has learned over his career with all of…