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The profit paradox

For decades, it was an iron law for investors: in the long run, the stock market follows economic growth. A thriving economy translated into rising corporate profits and thus higher share prices. But anyone who has watched the past thirty years closely senses a growing friction with this old wisdom.

The finfluencer revolution is unstoppable

In the world of investment advice, a new player has emerged that leaves traditional analysts behind: the finfluencer. A recent study by Vaibhav Lalwani on financial YouTubers in India reveals fascinating insights into how these unregulated advisers influence markets. Insights that institutional investors cannot afford to ignore.

The end of value investing?

The decline of value investing is not a recent phenomenon but a process that has been unfolding for over three decades. While many pinpoint its loss of effectiveness around 2007, Baruch Lev and Anup Srivastava demonstrate in their study that the strategy has in fact been structurally underperforming since the late 1980s. The key question is therefore: is value investing dead, or merely in a deep hibernation?