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…
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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…
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…
The Five Horsemen of Valuation Ratios
No, this isn’t an article about pro wrestling, Ric Flair and his sidekicks. Rather, it’s an introductory piece on the different ratios used to assess whether or not a stock…
Bitcoin Grows Up
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Bitcoin has gone from JV to Varsity, and now has a valuation as high as some of the world’s top companies. Turning 12 years…