Meb Faber Research – Stock Market and Investing Blog

Investors love chasing returns, always to their detriment.  The best place to be allocating likely is the worst performers over the past 3-5 years.  And if you have a strategy you believe in, the same.  Lots of redwoods crashing  down the last few years due to the below bloodshed, not a lot of performance fees to be had with...

Good to see Rob get a life time achievement award this past week in AZ, also good to see RA fundy assets cross $100B. Here he chats with Tom Lydon, and near the end he talks about just how low the CAPE is on their fundamental emerging.  Preview:  it's really low. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODdz0C3gvAk&w=560&h=315]  

I moved The Idea Farm to a private list because it was getting too big, and many publishers didn't want their research going out to a large audience, or available freely on the internet.  I have enjoyed sending out over 100 pieces of research in the past year, but am faced with a similar problem today as the list...

I'm not sure why the Investors Intelligence (which polls advisors) is so much more bullish than AAII (individuals), maybe perhaps since individuals still haven't bought into the market rally?  Curious to hear thoughts here:  

I thought this would be a fun way to visualize the Dow stocks, and how they distribute their cash through dividends and buybacks.  Most friendly on the left to least friendly on the right. Note that some companies, like Cisco and J&J, seemingly have a good yield but are net issuers of stock...(Note this says nothing about valuation.).... First list...

Patrick O'Shaughnessy has a great piece this month where they touch on a topic that is incredibly important now.  We mentioned this back in August where the premium that dividend yield stocks are trading at relative to the market is near the highest ever.  Historically when you invest in high yield you are getting a value tilt, but now, as...

I've been publishing CAPE updates for countries quarterly on The Idea Farm, and below I highlight a blurb from our upcoming year end outlook.  This chart shows the returns to country ETFs and the 10 cheapest and 10 most expensive markets.  Notice why I was so unpopular in Bogota in January when I said they have one of the...

This post is similar to the recent post we did on F-Squared.  We sent out a research piece recently to The Idea Farm list from Pictet, a multi-billion $ asset manager out of Europe.  I am slightly embarrassed to admit I had never heard of them until recently when a reader emailed me some of their work.  They have one...

Long time readers know that I am a big fan of simple rules based portfolios, heck that’s behind most of everything I do, from the buy and hold and 13F portfolios of The Ivy Portfolio to the trend portfolios of a QTAA, to shareholder yield approaches to income.  Frankly most all of the 2&20 world can be deconstructed for next to nothing....

One argument against a top in equities is the lack of M&A.  Below are a few charts from IMAA: