Ben Maimon
Jun 245 min read
A Picture of Israel 2024
A Picture of Israel, from the Taub Center, focuses on important data in areas of economics, labor, welfare, health, education, and health.
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Ben Maimon
Jun 20, 20233 min read
A Picture of the Nation 2023
As you may know, we’re big fans of the Taub Center, Israel’s leading nonpartisan research institute whose data-driven analysis is used to...
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Ben Maimon
May 9, 20201 min read
Value Investing - Positive Outlook
AQR Managing Principal Cliff Asness provides a compelling case for why value investing appears to be as relevant as ever. While value...
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Ben Maimon
May 7, 20205 min read
Can Small Cap Stocks Weather the Storm?
With recession concerns intensifying in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors may be wondering whether small cap stocks are poised...
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Ben Maimon
Jan 7, 20205 min read
2010-2020: A Decade in Review
On a total return basis, global stocks more than doubled in value from 2010–2019
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Ben Maimon
Jul 24, 20195 min read
The Importance of Investment Discipline
We believe that the goal of investment advice is to educate investors and increase their understanding of diversification, costs, and...
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Ben Maimon
Apr 21, 20191 min read
Benefits of International Diversification
Benefits of International Diversification revisits the appeal of international equity diversification. The author makes a strong case for...
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Ben Maimon
Mar 29, 20194 min read
Evidence-Based Investing Captures What Traditional Indexing Leaves Behind
In this recent piece, Ryan Jennings offers valuable insights into the benefits of an evidence-based investment approach. Prior to joining...
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Ben Maimon
Mar 3, 20191 min read
The Appeal of Factor Investing
In this recent post, Larry Swedroe highlights the benefits of well-designed factor-based strategies. Historically, such strategies have...
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Ben Maimon
Feb 18, 20191 min read
What Should We Expect from Value?
Many value investment strategies are based on value stocks’ long-term outperformance of growth stocks, by an annual average of 4.8% over...
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Ben Maimon
Nov 20, 20182 min read
The S&P 500's Fantastic Performance
Multi-Factor-World 's topical post does a great job of putting the S&P 500's fantastic recent performance into perspective. As noted,...
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Ben Maimon
Oct 26, 20181 min read
Be Prepared for Market Declines
While stocks are generally used as the engines of portfolio growth and have delivered attractive positive returns over time, this growth...
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Ben Maimon
Aug 24, 20181 min read
Maintaining a Globally Diversified Portfolio
In his recent MultiFactorWorld post, Jared Kizer makes the case that despite U.S. equities' substantial out-performance in recent years,...
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Ben Maimon
Aug 12, 20184 min read
Alternative Reality
Diversification has been called the only free lunch in investing. This idea is based on research showing that diversification, through a...
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Ben Maimon
Jun 5, 20184 min read
The Impact of Inflation
When the prices of goods and services increase over time, consumers can buy fewer of them with every dollar they have saved. This erosion...
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Ben Maimon
Mar 15, 20183 min read
Buffett's Secret Sauce
In his recent article, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig noted that Berkshire Hathaway’s stock had under-performed the S&P 500...
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Ben Maimon
Feb 18, 20181 min read
Strategic Factor-Based Strategies still Appear to Have the Upper Hand
In his recent contribution to ETF.com, Larry Swedroe discusses the results of a recent study suggesting that investors can exploit the...
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Ben Maimon
Feb 15, 20186 min read
Relying on Market Prices
To pique the interest of investors, the financial media often features stories about the hidden dangers in the market—and index funds...
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Ben Maimon
Jan 4, 20182 min read
As Goes January, So Goes the Year?
As investors ring in the new year, some may see the occasional headline about the “January Indicator” or “January Barometer.” This theory...
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Ben Maimon
Jan 2, 20183 min read
The Uncommon Average
“I have found that the importance of having an investment philosophy—one that is robust and that you can stick with— cannot be...
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