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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...
Have your say on the future of the FCA
The Financial Conduct Authority, the UK financial regulator, has a new secondary objective. As well as protecting consumers, the FCA is also required to help make the UK financial services sector globally competitive. This new objective was introduced by the last...
Why the UK is leading Europe’s push towards passive
UK investors have warmly embraced passive investing over the last decade, new research shows. But it’s a very different picture elsewhere in Europe. As ROBIN POWELL, there’s an obvious reason why. If we’re honest, most (if not all) of us...
Why index investing isn’t about accepting mediocrity
Advocates of active fund management often suggest that index investors are settling for mediocrity — in other words, average returns. But is that actually true? There have been very few better investments in recent decades than an S&P 500 index...
What does the long term mean?
One of the most important rules of successful investing is to focus on the long term. Arguably, it’s also the rule that investors ignore most often. As Mark Hebner writes in Step 9 his book Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program...
Savvy investors rate passive advisers more highly, study finds
The quality of the financial advice provided by passive advisers is more highly regarded by the most financially literate, a new study shows. Less financially savvy, overconfident people, on the other hand, tend to seek out advisers who advocate active investing....
What football fans can teach investors
I’m struggling to focus on work today, and, for once, it’s not the dreaded writer’s block. I have a ticket in my wallet for a football match tonight, and not just any match, but Aston Villa versus Bayern Munich in the...
