This week we discuss Ryan's article examining the Enterprise Multiple, EBIT/TEV, or Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) divided by the firm's Total Enterprise Value (TEV). Article Links: What's the Story Behind EBIT/TEV [...]
In the short video below, I show how to compute Active Share. The accompanying excel file with the formulas can be found here. I start by computing the active share for two hypothetical funds, and [...]
In mid-February, prior to the market craziness, Jon Seed posted an article on our site titled: “Price”, ETFs, and Bond Market Liquidity. This was a prescient article, as it highlighted some of the issues with [...]
In this video, we examine two articles highlighted on our site. The first article, written by Larry Swedroe, examines the Value and Momentum performance over the past two years ( highlighting great research by the [...]
Last week, there were some pretty big dislocations between bond mutual funds and ETFs. I picked one specific example I found interesting, comparing the Vanguard high-yield muni bond mutual fund to two high-yield muni bond [...]
In this week's video, we discuss two articles examining (1) the performance gap between large and small firms and (2) the case against REITs. Article Links: The Gap Between Large and Small Companies [...]
In this week's video, we discuss two articles examining (1) why Enterprise Multiples explain stock returns and (2) Asset allocation (and factor allocation). Article Links: Why Do Enterprise Multiples Predict Expected Stock Returns?Asset [...]
In this week's post, we discuss two articles examining (1) the relative underperformance of Value compared to Growth and (2) the new ETF rule and commission-free trading. Article Links: The Massive Performance Divergence [...]
In this week's post, we discuss two articles examining the 2019 Factor Performance in (1) the U.S. stock market and (2) the International stock market. Article Links: Factor Investing Update: An Analysis of [...]
In today's episode, we had Wes join the show and decided to have Wes and myself answer questions from Ryan on two research summaries we each wrote this year. One summary was original content, and [...]
In this week's post, we discuss two articles. The first article examines the financial performance of collectibles, such as Cars, Wine, and Art. The second article examines PMI and its impact on factor performance. [...]
In this week's post, we discuss three articles. The first article examines the effect of concentration (i.e. how many stocks does one own) within a Value portfolio. The second paper, summarized by Larry Swedroe, examines [...]
In this week's post, we discuss four articles. The size, written by the folks at AQR, is titled "Fact, Fiction, and the Size Effect" and is a deep dive into the Size effect--I highly recommend [...]
We hope everyone had a nice 4th of July weekend! In this week's post, we discuss one paper, titled "Buyback Derangement Syndrome." The paper was summarized on our site by Tommi, and the paper was [...]
In this week's post, we discuss three papers. The first post, written by Wes, covers a deep-dive into trend-following on equities. The second post, written by Andrew Miller, examines Large-Cap Value portfolios. The last post, [...]
In this week's post, I discuss three papers. The first paper, summarized by Tommi and written by Tarun Gupta and Bryan Kelly (AQR), examines the momentum of (L/S) factors. The second article, written by Larry [...]
In this week's video, we examine four articles. The first article, written by Elisabetta, examines a trading strategy on bonds (duration) using news sentiment. The second article, written by Larry Swedroe, examines two papers using [...]
In this week's video, we examine three articles. The first article, written by Adam Tkaczuk, covers a method to make an opportunity zone (equity) investment behave more like a bond. The second article, written by Larry [...]
In this week's episode, we cover two articles. The first article, summarized by Tommi, examines the performance of tax-managed factor strategies. The second article examines the performance of systematically purchasing stocks trading above 10x their [...]
In this week's episode, we cover four articles published on our site. The first article, written by Ryan, examines the growth in assets of ETFs and Mutual Funds. The second article, summarized by Elisabetta, examines [...]