By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — In 2021, over 320,000 investors from 190 different countries visited Validea.com in search of information that they believed could help in their investing journey. While…
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Factoring in Earnings Revisions
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — The market, by all intents and purposes, looks expensive based on most traditional valuation measures (the chart below courtesy of Liz Ann Sonders, Managing Director,…
What Has Worked and What Hasn’t So Far in 2021
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Each market environment and year we can look back and say what worked and what didn’t. And while it’s easy to do that in hindsight,…
Eighteen Financial Terms That Define Our Time
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Market events and periods of time bring about new terms, definitions and areas of focus and importance for investors. One generation of investors may grow…
A Walk Down Drawdown Lane
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — With the S&P 500 hitting all-time highs, it might seem strange to write an article about market drawdowns, but the one thing we know for…
Amplifying Momentum’s Alpha Potential
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Momentum investing can sometimes be looked at as a more speculative type of investing since it involves buying stocks that have gone up the most,…
What Makes Buffett Great. Identifying Bubbles. Importance of Intrinsic Value & More - Lessons From 100 Investing Podcasts
We have reached our 100th episode of Excess Returns. We have been privileged to speak to some of the smartest investors we know over the course of the 18 months…
Going from Dividend Aristocrats to Dividend Kings Using Quality and Value
Something happened recently that has never happened before in the market. If you take the current rate of inflation and compare it to the S&P 500’s earnings and dividend yield,…
Ark Investments and the Potential Downsides of an ETF Structure
Exchange traded funds have many great qualities. They are mostly transparent, low cost, trade in real-time and can have significant tax advantages over other investment vehicles like mutual funds and…
Moves to Consider to Help Protect Your Portfolio & Profits
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) Over the past few weeks, I’ve had conversations with a number of investors about the market’s amazing move higher, the astonishing performance in small caps, cyclicals…