By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) Last Summer, I published an article where I wrote some letters to my former investing self. Investing is a lifelong learning process and we all make…
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The Limits to Lessons from Past Bear Markets
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@PracticalQuant) The current bear market seems just like 2000. We had massive outperformance from growth and technology names coming into it, with small-cap value companies being…
Three Things I Feel Strongly About – And Why I Might Be Wrong
By Jack Forehand, CFA (@PracticalQuant) Confirmation bias is one of the most damaging biases in investing. All of us want to be right. We all want to think that opinions…
Learning from Buffett and Others During Market Crises
By Justin J. Carbonneau As of this writing, the S&P 500 will have dropped close to 30% in less than 20 trading days. The decline is the fastest drop into…
Some Thoughts on Market Panics
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) When the market pulled back in early 2018, I had just started writing publicly. It was my first chance to write an article offering my take…
The Elusive Definition of Risk
That lesson has not customarily been taught in business schools, where volatility is almost universally used as a proxy for risk. Though this pedagogic assumption makes for easy teaching, it…
The Biggest Mistake of My Career, And What l Learned From It
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) It was a cold October day in 2016. I woke up at 3 AM to fly to see the biggest institutional client we had in our…
Lessons From Our Most Read Five Questions Interviews
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) We have just passed the one-year mark of our Five Questions interview series. When we first launched the series, I wasn’t sure how it would go.…