Highlights – January 2016

As subscribers to Business Briefings and our sister publication Strategic Wealth Advisor already know, so-called “contrarian investment fund strategies” far outperform their “herd-fund” rivals on several measures of performance.

A new study in the journal Management Science, by researchers from the University of Iowa, confirms this finding and demonstrates that these managers have found ways to gather information that other managers haven’t figured out. For this reason, many contrarian fund managers, such as Pe.....