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With Europe’s microcap value stocks trading at 0.6x Price/Book today, we believe there is significant upside potential as fund flows continue to trickle down to the less liquid corners of the European market. These stocks also offer dividend yields north of 4%, so investors can be rewarded while they wait for mean reversion.

What Happened: Buffett's famous journey with the five Japanese trading houses — Itochu (ITOCF.NaE) , Marubeni (MARUF.NaE) , Mitsubishi Corp. (MSBHF.NaE) , Mitsui & Co. (MITSF.NaE) and Sumitomo Corp. (SSUMF.NaE) started not with a team of analysts or a visit to the country, but with a handbook detailing thousands of Japanese companies, according... See more

It’s not a market collapse that I see coming out of all this. That’s fire. All I can see is the long gray slog of stagflation. And I think that’s worse.

But the very factor that causes market inefficiency -correlated beliefs -makes exploiting that inefficiency difficult. The desire to be part of the crowd is pow erful, and being apart from the crowd is scary for most

It’s a very weird place for an economy to find itself, where the entire idea of ‘risk’ gets obliterated because of an intentional erosion in the full faith and credit of the US government, and I think that all of our economic models and projections about what happens next are going to be wrong.

In the new paper, the institute examines various alternatives to the current endowment model, including the Canadian model, the McKinsey Investment Office’s portable alpha model, and the total portfolio approach now employed by allocators including Future Fund and GIC.

The Canadian model — which emphasizes direct investing by in-house talent — has b... See more

We do know, for example, that the trading characteristics for stocks change after they have been added to an index such as t he S&P 500. But it remains to be seen whether indexing itself becomes a source of edge for active managers