As published in the Conseiller on October 14, 2024 (In French) The efficient market hypothesis states that share prices reflect fair market value. Since everyone has access to the same publicly available information, every known and relevant piece of data is already baked in and reflected in the current price. By this reasoning, there can […]
Nothing lasts forever, and that includes rising inflation. Now, after a couple of years of ever-rising interest rates to tamp down inflation, headline inflation is easing. The latest July report came in at 2.5%, the lowest reading since March 2021 and Fed watchers expect another 25-basis point cut in interest rates at the Bank of […]
As published in The Globe and Mail on September 26, 2024 (for subscribers only). Use low sentiment to your advantage Rush hour traffic is no one’s idea of fun. Studies show idling on crowded roads negatively affects our health and lowers satisfaction with work and life. Likewise, crowded trades are no picnic for advisors who […]
As published in the AIMA Journal on September 23, 2024 Synergy—the combination of two or more elements to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of their individual parts—has given the world Lennon and McCartney, fish ‘n’ chips, and Dolce & Gabbana. In the realm of investing in stressed and distressed credit, investors have […]
As published in the Financial Post on August 25, 2024 British pop band Dead or Alive had a massive hit in the mid-80s with their song “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” on their “Youthquake” album. It’s a catchy little number. Over on the other side of the pond, in the investment world, something […]
As published in Conseiller (in French) on 12 August, 2024. Investment success over the long term is based on the positive synergy of three pillars which form the basis of alpha generation through various market cycles. For professional investors, table stakes are 1) clarity of goals and alignment across the whole company and, 2) having […]
As published in CFA Institute Enterprising Investor on July 29, 2024. How confident are you in what you know? In 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Secretary of Defense spoke these, now-famous, words during a Pentagon briefing: “As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known […]
The investing adage that returns are greatest where capital is most scarce applies well to small cap stocks. These firms, often founder-led or family-owned, tend to be less well capitalized than larger enterprises and they have suffered the most during the recent period of rising interest rates. But this is not the first time they […]
As published in BPM on 15 July, 2024. Benjamin Graham, the “father of value investing” and author of the classic The Intelligent Investor, wrote: “Successful investing is about managing risk, not avoiding it.” Few strategies capture this idea better than stressed and distressed debt. These assets offer investors attractive risk/return propositions but there is no […]
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