By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — There are some core principles that are supposed to govern investing. If I were to ask you to come up with the most important one of…
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Low Volatility Investing and the Conservative Formula with Pim van Vliet
In this episode we talk Low Volatility investing with Pim van Vliet, who is the Head of Conservative Equities and Quantitative Equities at Robeco. Pim’s book “High Returns From Low…
Strategy Focus: Low Volatility Investing and the Conservative Formula
The success of of the low volatility factor can be challenging to explain. Investing theory teaches us that to get an additional return, we need to take additional risk and…
Some Thoughts on Low Volatility Investing
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — Like many investors, I like to follow strategies that make sense to me. If I am following a factor, I want to feel like the…
Zweig on Investors Who Tried to Win by Losing Less (and Lost Anyway)
In a recent Wall Street Journal article, columnist Jason Zweig highlights how this year’s performance of low-volatility funds—expected to “do better in bad times while still faring well in good…
Excess Returns, Ep. 27: Quality and Low Volatility: The Factors That Shouldn't Work
Investing factors that work over time typically do so for one of two reasons: they either produce an excess return by taking on additional risk or they benefit from the…
Swedroe: New Findings on the Low-Risk Anomaly
New research on the low-risk anomaly—in which less risky stocks earn higher risk-adjusted returns—shows “exactly which types of stocks are likely to perform poorly over time, especially in a bear…
Long Term Compounding Using Low Volatility & Other Fundamental Factors
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — There is an age-old concept in investing that the more risk you take the higher the return you should get. This makes a lot…
Low-Volatility Stocks May Have a Dark Side
Although low-volatility stocks were very appealing in the wake of the financial crisis (assets under management have risen to approximately $46 billion since then), some argue that these stocks are…
Boring Stocks are Winning
For emerging-market and European equity investors, low-volatility stocks are “paying off by the most in two years,” according to a recent Bloomberg article. “Low volatility—sorting stocks based on the magnitude of…
