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…
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The Case Against Value Stocks – Part II
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) It would be an understatement to say that the last decade has been a challenging one for value investors. The problems were initially isolated to…
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 Five Podcasts That I Never Miss an Episode Of
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) Early in my career, I thought I knew everything. I started investing during a period where the types of strategies we run, many of which…
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…
Seven Lessons from Mr. Market in 2020
In Ben Graham’s The Intelligent Investor, he introduces Mr. Market, which is an allegory that is meant to help the reader understand the irrational, groupthink and herding mentality that can…
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…
Five Lessons from Our Most Downloaded Podcasts of 2020
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) When we started our podcast, Excess Returns, late last year, I was hoping we could create something that would be educational and informative for people…
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…
