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Some Practical Ways to Look at Blending Factors
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) Those of us who run quant portfolios sometimes like to prove how smart we are. We like to throw out advanced statistical concepts that show how well…
GameStop: What Happened, How it Happened, and Lessons We Can Learn From It (Ep. 72)
The rapid rise and fall of GameStop earlier this year was unlike anything many of us have seen in our investing careers. The stock’s price went from the single digits…
Weekly Guru Investor Highlights: Understanding GameStop Saga, The Buffett Indicator, Commodities & More
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…
What GameStop’s Crazy Ride Can Teach Us About Investing
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — There’s a saying from Winston Churchill, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, and while the news around the Reddit message board, r/wallstreetbets,…
The Elusive Definition of Risk – And Some Practical Ways to Measure It (Ep. 71)
Risk is one of the most difficult concepts in investing to define. Part of that is because we face many risks as investors that come from many different directions. But…
Validea's Jack Forehand on Zona Value Club Talking The Quant Strategies Of Great Investors
Jack appeared on the Zona Value podcast. He discussed the history of Validea, some lessons from applying our strategies to the real world, and the recent underperformance of value investing.
Weekly Guru Investor Highlights: Basics of Value Investing, Market Timing is Bad & Evolving Factors
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…
The Basics of Value Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@practicalquant) When you look at the long-term performance data of the major investing factors, value and momentum typically rise above the rest. A few weeks ago, we began…
A Detailed Look At Joel Greenblatt’s Magic Formula Method – A Model that Blends Value & Quality (Ep. 70)
Joel Greenblatt produced exceptional returns as managing partner at Gotham Capital, a New York City-based hedge fund he founded. The firm averaged a remarkable 40 percent annualized return over more…