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…
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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…
Ten Amazing Facts On Tesla As It Zooms Into The S&P 500
2020 will be a memorable year for all of us, but for those in the markets it will be particularly memorable as we are seeing many things that have never…
Lessons From Our First Year of Podcasting (Ep. 58)
We have reached the one year anniversary of the podcast so we wanted to take a break from our regular investing episodes for a week and reflect back on our…
The Assets We Can’t See
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) There has been a major change in our economy going on for a long time now. The days where the largest firms make physical things…
Why Eliminating Discretion from Quantitative Models is Harder Than You Think (Ep. 57)
There is a tendency for those of us who support quant models to talk about them as if they are these things that just run on autopilot over the long-term…
Is Value Investing Dead? (Ep. 56)
Value investing has struggled for over a decade now. Although no one will dispute that fact, there are significant disagreements about whether this is just another of the long periods…
Knowledge Mining in the Market’s Past Returns
When you hear stats like the S&P 500 is up 10% for the year or the index has more than tripled off the 2009 low, it’s easy to take those…