The Big Picture
APRIL 17, 2025
In How Not to Invest , I showcase extreme examples of unforced errors to illustrate these behavioral mistakes. Chris Bloomstran, chief investment officer of Semper Augustus Investments Group, has tracked this. Decades as an investor and trader on Wall Street have taught me that panics come and go.
Validea
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
As one of the pioneers of contrarian investing, he built an impressive track record by systematically targeting stocks that were out of favor with the market. The Psychology Behind Contrarian Investing At the core of Dreman’s philosophy is his deep understanding of investor psychology. one year later and 37.5% within two years.
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Validea
NOVEMBER 16, 2024
In Greenblatt’s back-testing from 1988 through 2004, the Magic Formula generated average annual returns of 30.8% ” Conclusion Greenblatt’s Magic Formula offers a compelling reminder that successful investing doesn’t necessarily require complex algorithms or countless variables.
Darrow Wealth Management
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
The idea of living off dividends in retirement sounds nice, but investors often don’t realize how much money they’ll need invested to generate enough income from dividends to cover lifestyle expenses. So historically, every $1 million invested would yield annual dividend income of $19,800 on average… before tax.
Alpha Architect
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Their findings also provide support for Andrew Lo’s The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis (2004). Once anomalies are well recognized by the market they decline and may even disappear, though limits to arbitrage can allow them to persist. Markets Becoming More Efficient: The Disappearing Index Effect was originally published at Alpha Architect.
Trade Brains
AUGUST 3, 2025
Vanguard Fund, one of the world’s leading investment firms, made a fresh entry in the June quarter of 2025 by acquiring a new stake in an Indian company. This move highlights the fund’s growing interest in the Indian market and its confidence in the long-term prospects of the company it has invested in. 62,781 crore. 62,781 crore.
The Big Picture
MAY 21, 2025
This pronouncement motivated subsequent blog posts (notably in 2005 and 2021 ) and a full chapter in “ How Not to Invest.” Gateway would soon close its retail stores (2004), and not long after, CompUSA would shutter its physical locations (2007). and the Nasdaq 100 of -15.9%.
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