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…
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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…
Academic Research Spotlight: Migration by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French (Ep. 85)
This week, we look at some interesting research that took a unique approach to explaining the value and size premiums. We examine the paper “Migration” by Eugene Fama and Kenneth…
The Challenges of Avoiding Value Traps – And Some Criteria That Might Help
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — I wrote an article a few weeks back that looked at how much of the outperformance of value stocks since the bottom in March of…
The Three Keys to Understanding Investing Bubbles (Ep. 84)
With the stock market at all-time highs and returns over the past year some of the best in history, the word “bubble” is getting thrown around more and more by…
Weekly Highlights: SPACs, All Weather Investing, Howard Marks on the Market, Inflation Expectations
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…
A Detailed Look at All Weather Investing With Standpoint's Eric Crittenden (Ep. 83)
The last 40 years have been an exceptionally strong period for a portfolio of stocks and bonds. With stocks performing well and bonds benefitting from a tailwind of constantly falling…
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 Changing Nature of Momentum Investing (Ep. 82)
Investors tend to associate momentum with growth stocks. If you try to name a typical momentum stock off the top of your head, you will probably think of names like…