The stock market has had a huge run since last March. That fact, combined with unprecedented government stimulus, the potential for future inflation and other risk factors has many investors…
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Weekly Highlights: Finding Value in an Expensive Market, A Deep Dive into Asset Allocation and Timeless Lessons From Warren Buffett
In our weekly summary of the best posts on the Guru Investor blog, Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau discuss the original content we produced and their favorite outside articles we…
An In Depth Look at Asset Allocation with Jim Masturzo of Research Affiliates
We are currently in a very challenging time for building multi-asset portfolios. The 60-40 portfolios is coming off one of its best decades ever, but the expected future returns on…
Pockets of Value in an Expensive Market
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — The stock market has had a huge run in the past 15 months. As of May 11th, the S&P 500 is now up 64%, off…
Strategy Focus: Low Volatility Investing and the Conservative Formula
The success of of the low volatility factor can be challenging to explain. Investing theory teaches us that to get an additional return, we need to take additional risk and…
Weekly Highlights: Potential Moves to Protect Gains, Royce on Small-Caps and Why Cash on the Sidelines is Overrated
In our weekly summary of the best posts on the Guru Investor blog, Jack Forehand and Justin Carbonneau discuss the original content we produced and their favorite outside articles we…
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…
Six Potential Metrics to Help Limit Value Traps
Deep value investing is about buying companies that other investors don’t want. It is about investing in companies where the current situation doesn’t look great – actually in many cases…
Investing in Freedom in Emerging Markets with Perth Tolle, Founder of Life + Liberty Indexes (Ep. 86)
The emerging market universe includes a very diverse set of countries, many of which are sorely lacking in the types of freedom enjoyed by their people. Some of the biggest…
Some Thoughts on Low Volatility Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Like many investors, I like to follow strategies that make sense to me. If I am following a factor, I want to feel like the…