By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — There may not be a more polarizing topic in investing right now than cryptocurrencies. On one side, believers in the technology think it will change…
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Five Questions: Machine Learning in Investing with Kevin Zatloukal
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Artificial intelligence and machine learning are going to change investing in many ways. The ability of computers to think, analyze data, and react more and…
Where Has All the Alpha Gone?
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Alpha has always been elusive in the stock market. Stock pickers have tried to produce it since the market has existed, but in aggregate they have…
Five Questions: Modern Monetary Theory with Cullen Roche
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — It has been a long time since inflation was a major issue in the US economy. Unless you have been investing forty years, you have likely…
Five Questions: Private Equity in Public Markets with Brian Chingono
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — There are many misconceptions about private equity investing. Many investors view it as a domain where the rich and institutions earn outsized returns that are not…
The Case Against Value Stocks
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Confirmation bias is one of the biggest problems in investing. We all have a set of core beliefs, and we tend to surround ourselves with people…
Some Thoughts on Multi-Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Last week, I interviewed Liqian Ren of WisdomTree for our Five Questions series about multi-factor investing. The topics we covered were fairly complex so I wanted to…
Five Questions: Multi-Factor Investing with Liqian Ren
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Factor Investing has proven itself over long periods of time. But there is a price that has to be paid for its outperformance. The individual factors…
Factor Timing: Sin Less Than a Little
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — There is perhaps no issue that is the subject of more debate in the factor investing community than factor timing. We are all trained to buy…
Five Questions: Behavior in Investing with Dr. Daniel Crosby
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — There is probably nothing that hurts our investment returns more than our behavior. We spend a lot of time debating things like whether we should invest…