In this episode, we speak with Comgest portfolio manager Alistair Wittet We discuss his approach for building a focused portfolio of high-quality European growth companies and the most important criteria…
Tag: Quality Investing
A Better Way To Seek Out Quality Stocks
In times of volatility, investors lean more towards stocks that have steady earnings and solid balance sheets, and recent research from Vanguard displays a new way to get a better…
The Magic of Multi-Factor Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Many investors tend to have a style that they gravitate toward because it makes the most intuitive sense to them. And when it comes to building…
A Deep Dive Into Quality Growth Investing with Harding Loevner's Rick Schmidt
There is an interesting dichotomy in the growth investing space in that growth stocks as a whole tend to underperform the market over time, but the best performing individual stocks…
The Importance of Quality Shareholders
Investors who research and buy individual companies are becoming increasingly rare, according to Larry Cunningham in an interview with Wealthtrack. The most obvious example is Warren Buffett, famous for buying…
The Elusive Definition of Quality
Buying stocks of high quality companies is something investors are almost universally attracted to. But the details of how to define quality, and the reasons why it works can be…
What is Quality?
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There has always been an interesting dichotomy with the quality factor. On one hand, individual investors typically consider it the most sensible factor and it is…
Quality Stocks at Cheapest Point in 20 Years
In a recent research note, BlackRock CIO Tony DeSpirito wrote that higher quality stocks are trading at their largest valuation discount to the broader market since the dot-com bubble of…
Going from Dividend Aristocrats to Dividend Kings Using Quality and Value
Something happened recently that has never happened before in the market. If you take the current rate of inflation and compare it to the S&P 500’s earnings and dividend yield,…
Finding Quality Value Stocks With Joseph Piotroski's F Score Methodology
Research shows that value stocks can generate an excess return because the market tends to overestimate their problems, and value investors benefit when it realizes that. But despite that being…
