By Jack Forehand, CFA One of the biggest lessons I have learned in my investing career is the importance of being able to argue the other side of something I…
Tag: Practical Quant
The Misuse of Market Valuation
By Jack Forehand, CFA There is perhaps no piece of information that is more misused in equity investing than the valuation of the market. Whether someone has an agenda to show…
A Look at Some Alternative Ways to Manage Risk
By Jack Forehand, CFA The 60/40 portfolio gets a bad rap. It seems like there is a new article or study every week talking about its weaknesses or outlining why…
A Look at the Impact of COVID-19 on Value Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA On the surface, value investing is pretty simple. As a value investor, I want to buy stocks at a discount. I want to look at a…
A Letter to My Future Investing Self
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…
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…
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…
Five Questions: The Future of Asset Management with Meb Faber
Asset Management has become a more challenging place to make a living in the past decade. On the strategy side, alpha has become much more difficult to generate, as skill…
Five Questions: A Balanced Look at the Future of ETFs with Nate Geraci
The ETF landscape has been undergoing significant change in recent years. Although the lowest fee products and the largest providers continue to dominate, several new trends have the potential to…