By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — I have never loved the idea of defining bear markets using a narrow framework. The common definition is that US stocks are in a bear market…
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Buyback Monsters: Searching For Value In Companies with the Biggest Buybacks
This article was originally published on Forbes Just a few years ago, stock buybacks were a political punching bag. Ultra-low interest rates and borrowing costs, courtesy of the Federal Reserve,…
Systematic Macro Investing with 42 Macro Founder Darius Dale
Many investors see macro forecasting as a process about making bold binary predictions about the future of the economy and the market. Those predictions can gets lots of press when…
A Look at Changing Factor Exposures in an Evolving Market
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — The market has seen some major changes since the 2020 market bottom. It would have been very difficult to predict the massive rally we have seen…
An Inside Look at the GameStop Story and the Revolution That Wasn't With Spencer Jakab
The GameStop short squeeze in early 2021 was the talk of the investing world. It had all the parts of a great story. It had some investors making massive profits,…
Lies, Damn Lies and Market Valuation
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There has been a lot of talk in recent years about the market’s valuation. And much of that talk has been centered around how expensive it…
Motley Fool Founder David Gardner on Finding Rule Breaking Growth Stocks
This week we are joined by David Gardner, founder of the Motley Fool. We discuss his unique Rule Breaker approach to finding long-term growth investments and the criteria that the…
Five Investing Lessons From the NFL Playoffs
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — The NFL playoffs have been one of the most exciting and competitive set of playoff games I can remember. There were 281 total points scored…
Some Thoughts on the Recent Market Decline
With the market experiencing its first correction in a while, we thought it would be interesting to look at some behind the scenes data we found interesting about the recent…
Observations From The Recent Market Decline
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We are in the midst of a market catastrophe. There is blood in the streets. There is panic selling. There are forced liquidations. And the S&P…