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Balancing Return and Risk in Factor Investing with Harin de Silva
Many factor investors tend to use similar approaches. You will typically see some value and momentum in their strategies. You will also likely see some quality, and maybe even some…
Three Ideas to Help Fundamental Investors Weather a Flows Based Market
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — The market has changed in the wake of the pandemic. Retail trading is up dramatically. So is options activity. And narrative is driving returns much more…
Dispelling Myths in the Value vs. Growth Debate with GMO's Ben Inker
After years of struggle, it seemed like the big rebound value investors had been waiting for was upon us in the wake of the 2020 bear market. But recent months…
Options for Investors Worried About the Future of the 60-40 Portfolio
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — The 60-40 portfolio just finished one of its best decades in history. And that comes on the back end of a period starting in 1980 that…
Return Stacking w/ Corey Hoffstein of NewFound Research & Rodrigo Gordillo of ReSolve Asset Management
With bonds yields near all time lows and stock valuations near all time highs, the future returns of the 60/40 portfolio don’t look promising. This has led many investors to…
Gregg Fisher, Multi-Factor Pioneer, Talks Investor Behavior, The Future Of Value, Investing In Innovation & Lessons From 20+ Years as a Quant
Our guest in this episode is Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital. Gregg was a pioneer in factor investing and the founder of Gerstein Fisher, which he grew to over $5…
The Elusive Definition of Quality
Buying stocks of high quality companies is something investors are almost universally attracted to. But the details of how to define quality, and the reasons why it works can be…
What is Quality?
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There has always been an interesting dichotomy with the quality factor. On one hand, individual investors typically consider it the most sensible factor and it is…
An In-Depth Look at Factor Valuation - And Which Factors Look Cheap Today
Valuing factors can be a confusing process. Not only are there are different factors to look at, there are also many ways to define them and a variety of different…