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Introducing our new portfolio review service for professionals
The vast majority of pensions funds, charities, endowments and other institutional portfolios have underperformed the market for decades. The way to stop the rot is to have an independent portfolio review, reduce fees and complexity, and increase diversification. From today, that’s precisely what TEBI is offering. As anyone who’s read The...
During bear markets, it pays to sit tight
Developing an understanding of market history is one of the most valuable things that an investor can do. Though the past does not predict the future, we can learn a lot from it; and, in this video, Vanguard’s JAN-CARL PLAGGE outlines...
Is it time to ditch the value factor?
By ROBIN POWELL As Eugene Fama and Kenneth French famously demonstrated in 1992, value stocks have outperformed growth stocks over the long term. But growth has had the upper hand over value since the global financial crisis, and some commentators are...
Three disadvantages female investors face
The good news is, research shows that female investors often make better investors than men. The bad news, as ROBIN POWELL explains, is that women also face some big disadvantages when it comes to saving for retirement. Human beings are not...
Do active fund managers add value?
Active strategies are still hugely popular amongst investors. Despite their popularity though, the evidence shows that very few of these actively managed funds actually manage to outperform the market average. Robin Powell talked to the University of Bristol’s PROFESSOR IAN TONKS...
Hogwarts Finance: how investment wizardry is failing US retirees
By ROBIN POWELL There are very few human activities in which those with no expertise and no previous experience can outperform highly paid professionals. Investing happens to be one of them. If that sounds a little unlikely, take a look at...
Why fund industry marketing is so seductive
For decades, fund industry marketing was hugely successful. Fund houses would invest tens of millions of pounds every year on getting their products in front of consumers. It was awesomely lucrative, and to an extent it still is. But why is fund...
