How to Crush the CFA Exams On Your First Attempt: Part II
The key to success is studying for Level I and Level II not for the sake of passing that level, but for the sake of passing Level III.
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 29: What’s the Story Behind EBIT/TEV?
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 [...]
How to Compute Active Share
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 28: Bond ETF discussion with Jon Seed
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 27: Value, Momentum, and Low Volatility
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 26: Bond Mutual Funds and ETFs
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 25: Big vs. Small firms, and the case against REITs
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. [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 24: Enterprise Multiples, Asset Allocation & Factor Models
In this week's video, we discuss two articles examining (1) why Enterprise Multiples explain stock returns and (2) Asset allocation (and factor allocation). [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 23: Value, the ETF Rule & Free Trading
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 22: 2019 Factor Performance
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. [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 21: Christmas Special
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 20: Collectibles and PMI (and Factors)
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 19: Value Concentration and Portfolio Protection
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep 18: Size, Mom, Sell-Offs, & R Code
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 17: Stock Buyback Myths
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 16: Trend-Following, Large-Cap Value, Active Mgmt
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 15: Factor Momentum, Value, & Equity Comp
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 14: Sentiment and Bonds, Volatility, & ESG
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 13: Opp. Zone Investments, Hiring Losers, & Short Selling w/Insider Buying
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 [...]
Compound Your Knowledge Ep. 12: Tax-Managed Strategies & Stocks Above 10x Sales
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 [...]