James O'Shaughnessy
James O'Shaughnessy
James Patrick O'Shaughnessyis an American investor and the founder, chairman, and CEO of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, LLC, an asset management firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth24 May 1960
CountryUnited States of America
stories depends
History depends on who is telling the story.
arbitrage human-nature humans
Arbitrage human nature. It's not going to change any time soon.
income investor retired
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
literally money walking work
If you have a 401(k) at work and you don't use it, it's like literally walking by buckets of money every day,
bit investor likes pursue wants
If you're an investor who wants a little bit more from the capital-appreciation side of things, but still likes this concept of getting 'paid by the company,' then we would tell that investor to pursue shareholder yield.
buying expensive names
If you're indexing to the S&P 500, you're buying the most expensive names in the market.
blow couple history maybe strategies themselves tie ups
If you look back to the most spectacular blow ups in history, you can always tie them to a couple things: They were extraordinary complicated strategies that maybe even the practitioners themselves didn't understand, and they were overleveraged.
allow data free gut information lead rather relying remain time ways
By relying on the statistical information rather than a gut feeling, you allow the data to lead you to be in the right place at the right time. To remain as emotionally free from the hurly burley of the here and now is one of the only ways to succeed.
great stocks
You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.