The Asset Allocator: Factor Investing, Anyone?

Published: July 22, 2019, 10:50 a.m.

Seeking Alpha contributor Victor Haghani takes on the sacred cow of factor investing, noting the investment craze’s five-year underperformance bears watching by money managers. This podcast (5:27) sees value in cutting edge academic finance, but suggests that strategies whose validity have been established over millennia, such as diversification, should take precedence over those of more recent vintage whose findings are more ambiguous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices