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…
Tag: Factor Focus
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…
The Explosion of SPACs -- Should You Care?
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — The odds of finding a pearl in your restaurant oyster are 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 12,000 depending on the species of mollusk.http://goldsteinsjewelers.blogspot.com/2014/06/gem-mythbuster-pearls-found-in.html This is an article…