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During his recent interview with Barron’s Live, Rob Arnott discussed value is now ahead of growth decade-to-date. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: Now here’s a surprise. How many of our listeners believe that including the value crash in the COVID market where value in the first eight months … Read More

During his recent interview on the Excess Returns Podcast, Rob Arnott explained why your tolerance for downside risk is considerably less than you think it is. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: It’s interesting. In the market crash in 1987, and in the tech bubble bursting in 2000 to … Read More

In his recent interview with WealthTrack, Rob Arnott explained why investors should consider a cheap diversifiers strategy. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: Basically, my view was people have lots of money in mainstream stocks, lots of money in mainstream bonds, everything else, what I call the third pillar … Read More

During his recent interview with FTSE Russell Convenes, Rob Arnott explained why investors should always average in to what’s out-of-favor and unloved now. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: A friend of mine in the business, Charles Gave of all things a really good French economist. Hard to imagine, … Read More

In his recent interview with Yahoo Finance, Rob Arnott explained why we’re seeing the bursting of a bubble. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: ROB ARNOTT: What we’re seeing is the bursting of a bubble. This– 2020, in many ways, resembled 2000, the tech bubble. During the tech bubble, six … Read More

In his latest interview on the Stansberry Investor Hour, Rob Arnott explains why contrarian investing is inherently painful. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: If something is cheap relative to its fundamentals and you buy it and it goes against you you’re going to look and feel stupid, and … Read More

In his recent interview with Real Vision, Rob Arnott explains why the value effect is alive and well. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: Part of it is probably fed accommodation, and a large chunk of it is narrative that the marketplace embraces the notion that tech provides are … Read More

In his latest interview on the FEG Insight Bridge Podcast, Rob Arnott discusses why smart money has gotten dumb. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Well, it’s funny the way you frame that question. My son, who’s in his mid-30s, came to me about 18 months ago and asked my … Read More

In his recent interview on Unlock Your Wealth, Rob Arnott says the best strategy is one where you will stay the course when it goes against you. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: You want to look at investment strategies from a vantage point of would I stay the … Read More

In his recent article in the AFR Australia, Rob Arnott explains why we may never again see a better opportunity to buy value stocks. Here’s a excerpt from the article: We believe the economic pullback and value’s retraction are temporary. Vaccines are demonstrating efficacy in reducing adverse health effects and … Read More

In his latest article titled – Did I Miss The Value Turn?, Rob Arnott and associates discuss whether the recent value rebound, cresting in May, is over or is the start of a bigger rebound. Here’s an excerpt from the article: All indications are that 10 years from now Covid-19 … Read More

In his recent interview on WealthTrack, Rob Arnott discussed the courage needed to invest in value stocks. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: With value investing you’re always buying companies that are out-of-favor and unloved, so that’s one element that requires courage. Chasing the most popular and beloved companies … Read More

In his latest interview on the Excess Returns Podcast, Rob Arnott explains why value is as cheap as it’s ever been, with the two exceptions of last summer and the peak of the tech bubble. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: The one argument for why value investing has fallen … Read More

In his latest interview on the Masters In Business Podcast, Rob Arnott discussed development of his ‘fundamental index’ and why “rebalancing alpha is the dominant engine in incremental returns”. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Arnott: And so, we developed the idea of fundamental index which has become a very … Read More

In a recent panel discussion, which featured as a keynote at the Spark Disruptors Conference, Rob Arnott discussed why right now you want to be a value investor before the train leaves the station. Here’s an excerpt from the discussion: We did some analysis recently in which we showed that … Read More

Here’s a great interview with Rob Arnott on The Long View Podcast with Jeff Ptak and Christine Benz. During the interview Arnott provides some great insights into the best way to succeed as a contrarian value investor. Here’s an excerpt from the interview: Ptak: Widening out, let’s imagine I’m a novice … Read More