Many investors think that options are just a vehicle that affects the portfolios of sophisticated investors. But their impact on the market goes well beyond that. In this episode, we…
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Harnessing Empirical Finance in Long-Term Investing Strategies with Dimensional’s Savina Rizova
In this episode we talk with Dimensional Fund Advisors Director of Research Savina Rizova. We discuss her amazing story, from growing up in communist Bulgaria to recently being named one…
The Importance of Flows
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — I am a fundamental investor. I like to look at the value of a stock in the same way I would look at any business. Ultimately,…
Mike Green on the Dangers of the Rise of Passive Investing
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…
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…