By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) Factor investing has grown dramatically in recent years. But it is far from new. As those of us who invest using factors seek to learn more…
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Five Questions: The Importance of Narratives with Ben Hunt
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) One of the most important things any investor can do is to challenge their own beliefs. Confirmation bias leads all of us to seek out opinions…
The Mechanics of Value Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — We all have a tendency to want to put investing strategies into groups. That can sometimes be misleading, though. There are more investment products than…
Five Questions: An Academic Look at Factors with Lu Zhang
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — One of the major challenges that the finance community has faced over the years is how to explain what drives stock returns over time. If…
Five Questions: A Wealth Manager’s View of Factors with Michael Batnick
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Factor Investing poses some interesting challenges for wealth managers. On one hand, the evidence is very strong that investing using factors produces superior to returns…
Five Questions: An Inside Look at ETFs with Chris Hempstead
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — ETFs are both the present and the future of asset management. The combination of lower fees relative to mutual funds, tax efficiency, transparency, and intraday…
How ETFs Work – And Why All Investors are the Beneficiaries
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Wall Street has a reputation for enhancing itself at the expense of the individual investor. And that reputation is well deserved. It has been very…
Lessons from a Quantitative Investing Conference – Part Deux
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) Last week, I had the privilege of attending Alpha Architect’s annual Democratize Quant conference for the second time. The conference brings together leaders in the fields…
The Balance Between Simple and Complex in Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) Successful investing can be complicated. And our natural inclination as human beings is to want to address complicated problems with complicated solutions. But that can be…
The Damaging Role of Biases in Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) There are so many biases that can hurt your returns in investing that it is hard to keep track of them. There is also no shortage…