Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode is about what is momentum investing and can this be the best investment strategy in a world where fundamentals mean nothing?   Over the past few years – value managers – or those that try to estimate the fair value of a company and base their purchasing decisions around this have struggled to provide alpha – Alpha is the returns above the benchmark – or the index – and those active managers trying to provide value through buying undervalued companies – or those that have had short term losses – so their prices are below their fair valuations – have failed to see the rebound in prices expected from following this strategy So returns have been minimal One alternative strategy which has provided better returns over the past few year on average has seemed to be buy those companies not based around fundamentals but with momentum – i.e. what others are buying and hold these for a while to ride the wave up   What is momentum investing - is a system of buying shares t