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…
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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…
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio with Stephen Foerster
Investors are constantly searching for the perfect portfolio. Although it may be elusive, there are common principles that can allow all of us to get closer to it. We speak…
A Deep Dive Into Quality Growth Investing with Harding Loevner's Rick Schmidt
There is an interesting dichotomy in the growth investing space in that growth stocks as a whole tend to underperform the market over time, but the best performing individual stocks…
The Risk Reduction Conundrum
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — A member of my family called me the other day with a question I hear often from both people I know and from people we manage…