Ep. 516: Wesley Gray Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Published: Jan. 2, 2017, 3 a.m.

My guest today is Wesley Gray. He served as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps and taught as a finance professor at Drexel University. He earned an MBA and a PhD in finance from the University of Chicago and graduated magna cum laude with a BS from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Wesley is founder of Alpha Architect, an asset management that delivers affordable active exposures for tax-sensitive investors. He has published four books including: \u201cQuantitative Value,\u201d \u201cDIY Financial Advisor,\u201d \u201cEmbedded\u201d and his newest book \u201cQuantitative Momentum.\u201d He is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the CFA Institute.

The topics are his books Quantitative Momentum: A Practitioner's Guide to Building a Momentum-Based Stock Selection System and Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioral Errors.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

  • Efficient Market Hypothesis
  • Cross-sectional momentum
  • Time-series momentum
  • Trend following
  • Behavior
  • Career risk

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