“Don’t fight the fed” and “Don’t fight the tape” are expressions that have echoed from market professionals throughout the second quarter of this year. This has resulted in bubbling valuations in certain parts of the market. The second quarter has seen peculiar things such as...
One of the great challenges with portfolio construction as we look forward over the next 5 years is the lack of reliable risk models that reflect the realities of today’s investment environment. Never have investors been faced with near zero short-term bond yields as well...
Have you found yourself wondering how the volatility of recent months has affected the prices of exchange-traded funds, and more importantly how this impacts your client’s portfolios? While actual value and current prices are generally pretty close when markets are calm, they may diverge significantly...
Prior to the global health pandemic that has taken financial markets by storm, investing over the past decade had effectively been on autopilot with broad market indexes setting new highs constantly over that time. Since the market bottomed from the Financial Crisis of 2008/2009...
Systematic value investors face a lot of options when deciding which value metric they should utilize when constructing their portfolios. Unfortunately, common valuation metrics such as price-to-earnings (or the PE ratio) are prone to inaccuracies due to arbitrary increases in the life span of assets...
This quarter has been the worst quarter in over a decade. The S&P 500 Index officially crossed into a bear market on 3/12/20, which is defined as a period in which an index falls 20% from a new high. This marks the 6th...
At Global Beta, as we analyze the current whip sawing in the market, one thing is very clear to us: the market’s unpredictability has become very predictable. The same beast of algorithmic and index-based fund strategies that has seemingly and endlessly powered the market to...
The past ten years have produced a remarkable turnaround from the 2008 financial crisis. Unfortunately, the psychological damage that crisis inflicted on investors has resulted in what we believe to be the least loved bull market in history. The U.S. domestic equity markets have led...
The past week between 02/21/20 and 02/27/20 has officially become the worst week for stocks since the financial crisis. In fact, it is the most the S&P 500 index has been down in that span of time. The easiest solution for investors is...
Have you been wondering how long the current bull market in the U.S. will last? Justin Lowry, Global Beta Advisors’ Chief Investment Officer, just wrote about this particular topic for WealthManagement.com’s ETF Market Trends and 2020 Outlook. Learn more about the similarities between the present...