By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Value traps are the bane of a value investor’s existence. We build our strategies around buying cheap companies and hoping the market will eventually see things…
Tag: Practical Quant
Four Lessons from Guy Spier
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We were very fortunate to be able to interview Guy Spier on our Excess Returns podcast last week. If you haven’t watched the interview yet, I…
The Long and Short of Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Most of us who build factor-based portfolios rely on academic research as the underpinning of our strategies. And that makes a lot of sense. If we…
The Surprising Investment Factor That Defies the Risk-Return Tradeoff
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There are some core principles that are supposed to govern investing. If I were to ask you to come up with the most important one of…
A Detailed Look at the Quality Factor
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We all want to own great companies. We look at Warren Buffett’s success and want to own the same types of businesses he did. We love…
Where Valuations Stand After the Market's Strong Start to 2023
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — 2023 has been a great year for the market so far. Despite the negative sentiment coming into the year, falling inflation and interest rates coupled with…
The Core Principles of Momentum Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Momentum can be one of the more challenging factors for investors to understand. Since we are investing in businesses when we buy a stock, we are…
Four Lessons From Andy Berkin and Larry Swedroe
As a factor investor, there are a handful of people I have always wanted to interview for our podcast. We have been lucky to have been able to interview two…
The Magic of Multi-Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Many investors tend to have a style that they gravitate toward because it makes the most intuitive sense to them. And when it comes to building…
Never Listen to Market Forecasts, Especially Mine
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — You are witnessing the rise of the next great market forecaster. I may not have the Ivy League pedigree. I may not have cut my teeth…
