By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — For the last 40 years, managing risk for investors has been pretty easy. There have certainly been bear markets in the period, and some of them…
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Looking at the Rise of Money Losing Companies
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Two weeks ago, I wrote an article where I looked at the valuation of the median stock and how it has changed over time. When I…
Revisiting the Market Valuation in the Wake of This Year’s Decline
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — It looks like the 2022 bear market might be with us longer than many of us had hoped. A study of history would have told us…
The Essential Role of Expectations in Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — To make money in the markets, one needs to be an independent thinker who bets against the consensus and is right. – Ray Dalio I am a…
The Many Different Flavors of Value
Many investors believe that all value investing strategies are similar. When it comes to getting exposure to value, they think the many value funds that are out there are mostly…
Are Growth Stocks Cheap?
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — As a value investor, I have a weakness that I have struggled with my whole career: I really like buying things when they go down a…
Beware the Back Test
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Active investment managers have a pretty dismal long-term record. Depending on which study you look at somewhere between 80% and 90% of managers underperform their benchmarks…
The Three Levels of Conviction
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There are some areas of life where you can never have all the answers – no matter how much you know, how smart you are, or…
Five Things to Keep in Mind During Bear Markets
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — “People who succeed in the stock market also accept periodic losses, setbacks, and unexpected occurrences. Calamitous drops do not scare them out of the game.” —…
Six Charts to Help Understand Stock Valuations in the Wake of This Year’s Decline
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — The market’s amazing run in the wake of the pandemic has finally hit its first speed bump this year, with the S&P 500 down around 15%…