Harry Markowitz said: Diversification is the only free lunch in investing. As I write this towards the end of 2024, we have seen a number of years where a very select group of stocks has dominated the market returns. The Magnificent 7 stocks, for example, contribute to a large chunk of S&P 500 returns recently, […]
Diversification Free Lunch: A Value Investor’s Guide Read More »
I have a new stock candidate to add to my small cap value portfolio (which is part of the Premium membership at my newsletter on Substack). This poses a dilemma. My portfolio is allocated based on Kelly Fractions. This is the Kelly Criterion adjusted for a multi-asset portfolio. The allocation takes the correlations and covariances
You want to buy the best available value stocks in the market today. How do you go about finding them? What you need is a stock screener. This is a software or website that allows you to find stocks based on the criteria that you define. Most people know to look for value stocks using
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Most investors approach long term investment portfolio allocation very casually. Typical processes involve investing whatever cash is available, investing an equal number of shares among all stocks in the portfolio, investing an equal number of dollars among all stocks in the portfolio, or setting some thresholds (I will invest $x to start and if the
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