By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — When you look up a word in the dictionary, you expect to get a pretty clear definition of what it means. There obviously is gray area…
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Why What Sells Isn’t What Works in Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — There are many disconnects in the asset management industry between what sells and what succeeds. Often, what is the most effective for obtaining clients is the…
"I Don’t Know" – The Most Important Phrase in Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Certainty is often seen as a sign of strength in life. When someone is telling us the best course of action within their field of expertise,…
What Gambling and the Oakland A's Can Teach You about the Importance of Process
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — I have a friend who is an infrequent gambler and won money almost every time he went to the casino. He did it by exclusively playing…
A Different Definition of Risk
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Investment professionals like to use a myriad of fancy terms to measure risk. The problem with almost all of them is that they are in no…
The Market May Not Be As Expensive As You Think
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — The consensus opinion among followers of the market has been pretty consistent for some time now. The general belief is that the stock market is trading…
Lessons From a Quantitative Investing Conference
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — I had the privilege to attend the Democratize Quant conference last week put on by Wes Gray and the team at Alpha Architect. The conference allowed…
Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Fundamentally Change Investing
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — Artificial Intelligence is going to change the world. It already has in many ways. But its best days are still ahead of it. So many industries,…
Why Both Sides of the Active vs. Passive Debate Are Right
By Jack Forehand (@practicalquant) — It has become a common belief in the investing community that passive investing is superior to active management. And there is a large volume of data…
Some Ideas for Investing in a Low Return Environment
There is a very strong likelihood that returns for investors over the next decade will be significantly lower than what we have seen in the past ten years. With the…