Markets Insider (February 8)
“The takeover of passive and algorithmic trading has made value investing significantly harder, with overvalued stocks now more likely to win out.” The shift from actively managed investment has “led to fewer investors trading on the merits of individual stocks, making it harder… to find undervalued companies that will eventually close the gap between them and the rest of the market.”
Tags: Actively managed, Algorithmic trading, Investment, Investors, Market, Overvalued, Passive, Stocks, Takeover, Undervalued, Value investing
Wall Street Journal (January 1)
“Encouraged by promises of strong action by Japan’s new government to weaken the yen, end deflation and introduce structural overhauls, market experts are generally bullish on Japanese equities for 2013…. Strategists almost uniformly agree that Japanese shares remain undervalued and underexposed to international investors.”
Tags: Equities, Government, Investors, Japan, Undervalued, Yen