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Eddy Elfenbein: Investing is a Bottom-Up Activity
The longer I’ve worked as an investor, the more I’ve come to realize that successful investing is a…
January 20, 2014

Prepare, Don’t Predict: Building Resilient Portfolios with Private Credit
For decades, investors climbed the 60/40 ladder with confidence. Now, every step feels less steady. High inflation that refuses to budge, interest rates that won’t come down anytime soon, and the growing correlation between stocks and bonds...
ETF No Longer Means Index Fund
by Rick Ferri Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) started out linked at the hip to low-cost, market-tracking index funds. The…
January 17, 2014
Technical Weekly: Hold on to Strength – Valeant Pharma (VRX.TO) and Home Depot (HD)
by SIACharts.com Back on July 18 of last year for the Equity Leaders Weekly, we discussed the common…
January 16, 2014
Frank Holmes: Continuing a Winning Formula for 2014
Continuing a Winning Formula for 2014 by Frank Holmes, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Global Investors January…
January 13, 2014
Bill Smead: David (Active Management) vs. Goliath (Passive Indexes)
by William Smead, Smead Capital Management Malcolm Gladwell is a fantastic writer and his new book, David and…
January 7, 2014
SIA Weekly: Reading (Relative Strength) 'Tea Leaves' (e.g. AAPL)
by SIACharts.com For this week's SIA Equity Leaders Weekly, we are going to show the power of Relative…
December 19, 2013
David Kass: 16 Questions for Warren Buffett
(Notes taken by Professor David Kass, Department of Finance, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland…
December 16, 2013
Stay Out of the Bottom Quartile – Look for Fund Managers with Large Active Share (David Merkel)
by David Merkel, Aleph Blog If you are a money manager, you would like to be in the…
December 16, 2013
Consistent and Repeatable
by Tom Brakke, Research Puzzle In my presentation on “Creativity in the Investment Process,” I have a slide…
November 6, 2013
Downside Risk Mitigation is not All That Complicated
“Our goal at XYZ Capital is to participate in the market on the upside and preserve capital on…
November 1, 2013
Did The Fed Kill The Long Term Investor?
by Lance Roberts of STA Wealth Management, Gone are the days where people looked towards next year when…
October 29, 2013
Many Investors Are Still Under-Diversified
by Capital Spectator The Crucial Connection: Asset Allocation & Rebalancing The link between asset allocation and rebalancing is…
October 25, 2013
The Value of Using Pairs Trading for Stocks in Uncertain Markets
For this weeks edition of the SIA Equity Leaders Weekly, we will be looking at two comparison charts…
October 11, 2013
Better Beta is No Monkey Business
by Patrick Rudden, AllianceBernstein The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter…
October 10, 2013
Low Quality Equities Outperforming High Quality Equities
by David Templeton, Horan Capital Advisors One factor S&P Dow Jones indices uses in their stock classifications is…
October 1, 2013