By Justin Carbonneau (Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube) — In a conversation between Jack Forehand and Matt Zeigler about factor investing within the realm of financial planning, an important insight emerged: while quantitative investing…
Tag: Quantitative Strategies
Quants Could Have Their Best Year in Decades
An array of quant investing strategies that do particularly well in turbulent times are on track to have their best year since 2000, reports an article in The Wall Street…
Knowing When to Change Your Investment Process
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We all know that having a sound process is crucial to investing success. Finding something that works over the long-term and adhering to it through the…
Show Us Your Portfolio: Ryan Kirlin
In our first nine episodes of Show Us Your Portfolio, we spoke to some great investors and looked at some really interesting investment approaches. But one thing we noticed about…
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…
ETFs Inspired by Quants Beating the S&P 500
Investors optimistic about the post-pandemic world are channeling cash into “riskier companies acutely sensitive to the economic cycle—led by the famed resurgence in the value factor,” according to a recent…
Six Potential Metrics to Help Limit Value Traps
Deep value investing is about buying companies that other investors don’t want. It is about investing in companies where the current situation doesn’t look great – actually in many cases…
Quantifying The Motley Fool’s Small Cap Growth Investment Strategy (Ep. 79)
The Motley Fool is not known for their quantitative models. They are known for a discretionary growth style of investing that attempts to identify game changing companies and then holds…
The Five Horsemen of Valuation Ratios
No, this isn’t an article about pro wrestling, Ric Flair and his sidekicks. Rather, it’s an introductory piece on the different ratios used to assess whether or not a stock…
Validea's Jack Forehand on Zona Value Club Talking The Quant Strategies Of Great Investors
Jack appeared on the Zona Value podcast. He discussed the history of Validea, some lessons from applying our strategies to the real world, and the recent underperformance of value investing.
