Quantitative Investing
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been giving bulls fits in recent months, and everyone seems to have the secret recipe of what will get the world’s......(read more)
How to Beat the Market By Imitating Hedge Funds
Update: (May 14,2013) We launched a newsletter at the end of August 2012 that lists the stock picks of the small-cap strategy discussed in this article......(read more)
Why do Hedge Funds Hide Some of Their Stock Picks?
Hedge funds have to disclose their long holdings in public companies every three months but from time to time they may ask for exceptions. Until the request......(read more)
Joel Greenblatt Provides Evidence Supporting Behavioral Finance
Yesterday I looked at James Montier’s 2006 paper The Little Note That Beats The Market and his view that investors would struggle to implement the Magic......(read more)
Hedge Fund Performance Persistence
Hedge fund performance numbers are closely followed by investors and the media. Is past performance an indicator of future results? Of course past performance......(read more)
Lightsquared Buys Time with Inmarsat Payment
Lightsquared Inc., the U.S. group attempting to build a wireless network using satellite spectrum, has recently made an overdue payment of $56.25 million......(read more)
What Percentage of Hedge Fund Profits Are Pocketed by Managers?
What percentage of hedge fund profits are pocketed by hedge fund managers? Reuters published an article yesterday with the following title: “Managers......(read more)
Gold Valuation Model: Gold is 74% Overpriced
I have been bullish about gold since 2005. I bought a ton (figuratively speaking) of gold at $550 and kept adding small amounts as the price reached $......(read more)
Goldman Was Pleased About the Quant Liquidity Crunch
Mark Carhart used to run the Goldman Sachs Asset Management with Ray Iwanowski. Goldman’s flagship Global Alpha hedge fund lost almost 40% in 2007 and......(read more)
Does Sector Rotation Investing Beat the Market? – FUNDX Upgrader Fund
Sector Rotation Investing is a strategy used by many market professionals to beat the market. Stocks in a given sector usually have very high correlations......(read more)
Socially Responsible Investing: Ariel Fund (ARGFX)
Insider Monkey, your source for free insider trading data, showed that the Vice Fund (VICEX) didn’t have any alpha during the past 5 years. Large management......(read more)
The Death of Efficient Market Hypothesis and Japanese Centenarians
The Efficient Market Hypothesis is like Japanese centenarians- they’ve been dead for more than a decade or two but still listed as “alive” in......(read more)
The Stock Market Will Go Up By 58% Over The Next 10 Years
The most common way to determine if stock market returns are overpriced or cheap is to use P/E ratios. The two schools of thought include that of ......(read more)
Beat Index Funds By More Than 10% Per Year
This year Vanguard became the largest mutual fund family. They preach that index investing beats stock picking and market timing. The truth is that ......(read more)









