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The Changing Nature of Momentum
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Investors sometimes want to pigeonhole investing factors. We want to look at a factor and associate a certain type of company with it. Doing so…
Quantifying The Motley Fool’s Small Cap Growth Investment Strategy (Ep. 79)
The Motley Fool is not known for their quantitative models. They are known for a discretionary growth style of investing that attempts to identify game changing companies and then holds…
Weekly Highlights: What Value Models are Getting Wrong, Dalio on Bonds and Buffett's Winning Chinese Bet
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…
Rafael Resendes On Intrinsic Value, Economic Margin and How Some Value Models Have Lost Their Way (EP. 78)
Systematic value strategies have had one of the worst performing periods in their history in the past decade. This extended underperformance, coupled with changes in the market and economy that…
The Five Horsemen of Valuation Ratios
No, this isn’t an article about pro wrestling, Ric Flair and his sidekicks. Rather, it’s an introductory piece on the different ratios used to assess whether or not a stock…
What Has Really Driven the Rebound in Value Stocks? (Ep. 77)
There is a popular narrative out there that value investing is back. And it makes sense given the huge run that many value funds have had off the market bottom.…
Weekly Highlights: Quality on Sale?, Machine Learning, and Why Peter Lynch May the GOAT Stock Picker
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…
Is Quality on Sale?
By Jack Forehand (@PracticalQuant) — Value investing is far from an exact science. Not only is there significant debate about the proper metrics to use to define value, but there is…
Machine Learning, Fantasy Football and Factor Investing with Kevin Zatloukal (Ep. 76)
In this episode, we are joined by Kevin Zatloukal. Kevin teaches Computer Science at the University of Washington and has his Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. He previously was…