The case for passive investing is a very strong one. With most active managers failing to keep up with the market, the arguments for passive are difficult to refute. But…
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Navigating Bull and Bear Markets Using Trend Following
With the market in a significant drawdown, there has been a renewed interest from investors in trend following strategies. Given its ability to limit losses during drawdowns and reduce volatility,…
Ten of the Biggest Financial Planning Mistakes Investors Make – And How To Avoid Them – With Peter Lazaroff
In this episode we change things up from our usual topics and focus on financial planning. No matter how much experience and training we have, all of us tend to…
Evaluating the Current Arguments in the Value vs. Growth Debate
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — After a decade of massive outperformance, the tide has finally turned against growth investors this year. The combination of stretched valuations, less favorable fed policy and…
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Trend Following
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Something has happened recently that hasn’t happened in quite some time – of the seven major market indices we apply our trend following model to…
Show Us Your Portfolio: Meb Faber
We have always found it very informative when investors we respect talk about how they manage their personal portfolios. So we decided to start a new segment of the podcast…
Jack Schwager on What We Can Learn From History’s Best Traders
In this episode we speak to Jack Schwager. Jack is the author of the Market Wizards series of books and has been studying the best traders for decades. He has…
The Importance of Intangible Assets
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — I started out my career as a Price/Book guy. It certainly wasn’t the only value factor I used, but I would defend it when it came…
Four Experts Help Us Understand Inflation - And What It Means for Investors
Inflation is probably the number one topic on investors’ minds these days. But much of the information out there about it is either wrong or lacks the proper context. We…
Should Investors Fear the Yield Curve Inversion?
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — It seems like are never a shortage of issues out there that can cause fear for investors. There is always at least some wall of worry…