Value investing has had better times. At one point the concept of buying stocks for less than their intrinsic value was widely appreciated by professional and armchair investors alike. However, the advent of index investing and the strong outperformance of growth stocks (such as the FAANG stocks) in recent times has made value investing slightly…
Passive investing through index ETFs has become the dominant mode for most retail investors, with studies showing that active strategies largely fail to beat the index over most meaningful periods of time. The huge growth in the ETF industry, along with competitive pricing for most mainstream passive index products has made tracking any type of…
News consumption in 2021 increasingly takes place in the email inbox. Mainstream news sources and independent publishers alike on platforms such as Substack have realized email subscribers are engaged readers and many prefer the convenience of daily emails with summaries of the major events they need to stay on top. Below we provide our top…
There is no shortage of information out there for investors and certainly no shortage of podcasts, but only so much time in the day. Below we recommend our favorite podcasts oriented towards stock market investors with more of a long-term view. We will keep this list updated as new podcasts make their way on to…
Information is critical to investing success. That was part of the motivation for starting Lean Investments in the first place. Having high quality information from a well-curated variety of sources can be advantageous when deciding which investments to make and refrain from. For example, if you had the information that Nikola’s truck wasn’t capable of…
