Tag Archives: equities
Food for Thought: An Insight into Japan’s Outlook
Japan’s nominal GDP has increased, its unemployment rate has fallen, and return on equity measures are strong — why are investors not rushing into the country? Read More
Decrypting Earnings Calls with Natural Language Processing
David Pope, CFA, sees natural language processing (NLP) as a systematic and sensible way for analysts to review larger amounts of information in less time. Read More
Emerging Market Equities: Unloved and Under-Owned
Devan Kaloo, Head of Global Emerging Markets Equities at Aberdeen Asset Management, is “quite optimistic about EM equities.” In his opinion, valuations are attractive relative to developed markets. Read More
C. Thomas Howard Urges Practitioners to “View the Markets as They Are”
C. Thomas Howard, an opponent of the efficient markets hypothesis, advocates for a radical departure from the idea of diversification at the core of a healthy portfolio. Read More
Investment Wisdom from the Masters: Risks and Relative Values in Diversified Global Portfolios
“We are lucky enough to hear from two important luminaries if I dare not say lions, of the financial economic world over the last few decades,” introduced Gillian Tett as Robert Shiller and Jeremy Siegel squared off again. Read More
Generating Alpha by Exploiting Market Anomalies
Net of fees, the average active investor will underperform the stock market. Yet empirical data also suggest that there are a number of market anomalies that have persisted over time, and disciplined investors can exploit them to generate outsized returns, Peter Berezin says. Read More
Think Different, But Be Right
How do you differentiate yourself from other professional investors? Rupal J. Bhansali uses a process of elimination, screening out companies with unattractive characteristics so that an attractive opportunity set “rises to the top like cream over milk.” Read More
For Investors in India, Reform Equals Opportunity
Punita Kumar-Sinha, CFA, expects Indian stocks, up nearly 20% over the past year, to move even higher. Read More
Crowdsourcing Investment Insights: How and Why It Works
A trio of entrepreneurs explain how their startup companies are harnessing the power of social media and online collaboration to enhance investment research. Read More
Emerging Market Debt: An Asset Class Coming of Age
Despite recent downturns in some emerging markets, Kristin Ceva, CFA, remains bullish on a number of emerging market countries. Read More
