By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We are in the midst of a market catastrophe. There is blood in the streets. There is panic selling. There are forced liquidations. And the S&P…
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The Risk Reduction Conundrum
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — A member of my family called me the other day with a question I hear often from both people I know and from people we manage…
The Forecast Article To Shake Your Belief in Forecasts
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We have just reached the end of 2021 annual forecasting season. It is the time of year when market strategists tell you where the market will…
Our Five Most Popular Podcasts of 2021
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Our goal when we started the Excess Returns podcast was to hopefully use the platform to help educate investors, and to learn ourselves in the process.…
My Biggest Lessons From 2021
The experiences all of us have at the beginning of our investing careers do a lot to shape what we believe and how we act going forward. For investors who…
Some Observations on the Current Market Valuation
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We have had a massive run in the US market since the 2020 bear market bottom. Although the wall of worry has been our constant companion…
The 5 Most Read Investing Posts On Validea's Guru Investor Blog In 2021
It has certainly been an interesting year for the stock market. If you want to illustrate the concept of climbing the wall of worry, you couldn’t pick a better year…
Validea’s Jack Forehand Interviewed on Resolve Riffs Podcast
Validea’s Jack Forehand joined the Resolve Riffs YouTube show and podcast on November 12th to discuss factor investing and our approach to building quantitative strategies. Topics covered in the discussion…
The Different Approaches to Multi-Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — I have always been a big believer that factor investing is an effective way to produce returns that beat the market over time. But I also…
Five Lessons Our Podcast Guests Would Teach Your Average Investor
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — One of the things many podcasts have in common is a standard closing question that they ask all their guests. For most of the history of…