Book Review: The Bogle Effect by Eric Balchunas
This is a review of Eric Balchunas's book "The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle and Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out and Saved Investors Trillions."
Book Review: Your Essential Guide to Sustainable Investing
I am grateful for this book because I am less confused about sustainable investing, and I am inspired to learn more about the topic. I commend Larry and Sam’s work for being technically accurate and complete, while accessible to a reader who isn’t an expert on the subject and is looking to learn more.
Book Review: Smart(er) Investing by Elisabetta and Tommi
It's not often I get the opportunity to write a book review for our fellow teammates and the best authors on our website -- Elisabetta [...]
Book Review: Your Complete Guide to a Successful and Secure Retirement
If you are looking for an applied framework for tackling the topic of financial planning, you should read Your Complete Guide to a Successful and [...]
Reproducible Finance with R: Code Flows and Shiny Apps for Portfolio Analysis
R is a programming language that owes it's lineage to S, a language designed in it's own developers words, "to turn ideas into software, quickly [...]
Book Review: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
Behavioral psychology is going mainstream in American culture, from Michael Lewis’s “Moneyball,” to recent Nobel prizes won by behavioral economics giants Daniel Kahneman and Richard [...]
Book Review — Market Timing with Moving Averages
Trend-following is something I've struggled with for years -- always felt like voodoo magic and data-mining. That said, I finally came around to appreciating the [...]
Richard Thaler: Misbehaving His Way to a Nobel Prize!
Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard that Professor Richard Thaler earned the recent Nobel Prize. (The University of Chicago is on fire these [...]
Book Review — The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Psychology permeates nearly every area of human endeavor. In the world of investing, for instance, psychology can help us understand the systematically poor decision-making that [...]
Berkin and Swedroe’s Factor Investing Book
Well, I was midway through a formal book review on Larry and Andrew's new book, "Your Complete Guide to Factor-Based Investing," when I noticed that [...]
Book Review — Loaded: Money, Psychology, and How to Get Ahead…
A few months ago I had the pleasure of hearing Sarah Newcomb speak at a recent Morningstar ETF conference. She was extraordinary. Although I only [...]
Book Review: Investing in Foreign Stocks
In their search for strong investment returns, many investors have increasingly looked abroad to international markets. International diversification makes sense from several perspectives. For instance, we [...]
Book Review — Common Stocks and Common Sense
Investing can perhaps be best learned through a combination of applied practice and continuous study. While there is no substitute for real-world experience and the [...]
Quantitative Momentum: A Guide to Momentum-Based Stock Selection
The long wait is over. Our newest book--Quantitative Momentum--is finally here. After 2 years of research review, results replication, reverse engineering, internal idea generation, writing, editing, [...]
Alpha Architect 2 for 1 book deal — cheap summer reading!
Readers: We know a lot of you are out on vacation in August and probably having the time of your life (eg., see below). But [...]
Digging Deeper into Adaptive Asset Allocation
In some ways, investing is simple. After all, we all want the same things. High returns. Low volatility. Small max drawdowns. Unfortunately, it's very difficult--if [...]
Fascinating insights from ETF industry veteran Eric Balchunas
In the world of ETFs, while there are many people who claim a deep understanding of ETFs, there are few who actually possess it. Eric [...]
Book Review — Family, Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth
For many people, navigating the road to long-term family wealth creation can be a challenging process. This is because families, especially young ones, may be [...]
Book Review — Entrepreneurs in the Midst: Stories from Founders, Creators, and Builders
When considering the prospects for an early-stage business, it’s hard to know the right ingredients for success. You might assess the firm's business model, and [...]
Book Review — The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Although randomness is all around us, we often fail to recognize the profound role it plays in our lives. Evolutionary biology and faulty intuition lead [...]