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Expert panel: Defining risk depends on investing horizon

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 15:15:37 +0000

What’s the right definition of risk in financial markets? Finding the answer to this question has become even more important because the number of retail traders is at a record high. Over the past 10 years, between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of all U.S. trades have come from retail accounts. So far […]

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2022 IIC coverage: Pension funds urged to leverage value, profitability model

lbailey — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 12:48:59 +0000

Value and profitability are inextricably linked and, when they’re combined in a portfolio, institutional investors can garner a healthy premium, said Sunil Wahal, professor of finance at Arizona State University, during a session at the Canadian Investment Review’s 2022 Investment Innovation Conference. He likened the investment approach to building a hockey team, noting the goal […]

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Do cryptocurrencies have a place for value-oriented investors?

Jennifer Paterson — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:00:27 +0000

What’s the value of Bitcoin? Or better, what makes it valuable? Is it because many people think it’s valuable? Is it valuable because it’s cool and we expect other people, especially those in the online community, to believe it’s valuable? Does the dynamics of investor demand matter as much as fundamentals? In a recent paper, […]

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Rising interest rates, value investing, war in Europe: key questions answered

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:00:07 +0000

It’s a chaotic time for institutional investors. Between rising inflation and interest rates, war in Europe and an ongoing global pandemic, stock market volatility is on the rise. For those concerned about the long-term implications of these developments, here are my answers to a couple of common questions. Stock markets have risen in past interest […]

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Value investing textbook aiming to correct academic misunderstandings: author

Gideon Scanlon — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 18:00:51 +0000

A new textbook on value investing is aiming to combat the academic community’s premature dismissal of the subject, says author George Athanassakos, professor of finance and the Ben Graham chair in value investing at Western University’s Ivey School of Business. “There are plenty of books on value investing — but not academic books. I decided […]

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Expert panel: The concept of risk and risk management in value investing and modern portfolio theory

Gideon Scanlon — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 17:15:20 +0000

Between mixed signals about inflation, signs of structural weakness in China’s over-leveraged real estate sector and September’s low returns on global equities, institutional investors have just been through a volatile quarter. And the fourth quarter is likely to be filled with hidden hazards, both known unknowns and unknown unknowns. Most portfolio managers will try to […]

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Vaccine news a shot in the arm for value investing

mschmit — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:00:58 +0000

Now is the time for institutional investors to buy value, small cap and cyclical stocks and hold steady while the economy builds back, says Bill Callahan, an investment strategist at Schroders. Indeed, energy and financial sector stocks saw gains Monday as investors are rotating from growth and large cap stocks after Moderna Inc. released data […]

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Is value investing still relevant in a volatile market?

mschmit — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 04:45:35 +0000

Back in December 2018, I wrote an article asking whether it was a good time for pension plan sponsors to revisit value investing. At that time, public equity markets were having a difficult quarter and traditional value strategies didn’t perform as well as expected, failing to provide the much-touted protection in down equity markets. Flash forward to […]

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Is value investing still relevant?

mschmit — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 04:08:42 +0000

With a rough 2020 year-to-date, value investing’s recent poor performance follows over a decade of underperformance, leaving many to ask if it’s still relevant, according to a new white paper by Mercer. Between 1927 and 2008, the average annual value premium was 5.5 per cent, but since then results have been lacklustre. In the 2010s, […]

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Moving beyond a naive definition of value investing

mschmit — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:38:20 +0000

Stock picking with the right process and the right temperament works. And, contrary to popular claims, value investing is not dead. Those who claim it is dead, substantiate this by providing evidence that picking cheap stocks, meaning stocks with low price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios, has been ineffective since the onset of the great recession. What […]

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