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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...

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Compound interest: what every investor needs to know

    Compound interest is one of the most important things that an investor can understand. In this video, financial journalist NORMA COHEN explains how fundamental the concept is to successful investing – as well as the potential drawbacks that investors need to...

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Never bet against America

    I’ve lost count of the times that seasoned market commentators have cautioned against investing in US equities in recent years. Yet investors who ignored suggestions that US stocks were “overvalued” and simply stayed invested have been amply rewarded. This isn’t just...

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Second Lives: how a civil servant reinvented herself as an artist

    Robin writes: It’s time for the latest in our podcast series Second Lives, in which my co-author JONATHAN HOLLOW has been interviewing people who have made sharp turns to new and more fulfilling careers. This month he talks to HELEN ARTHUR,...

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Beware fund managers with a short term focus

    The investment objectives of most investors are best served by a long-term approach; and yet the asset management industry often has a much more short-term focus. In this video, behavioural finance expert JOE WIGGINS outlines the incentive problem within the industry,...

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Charles Ellis was right — market timing is a wicked idea

      Market timing is one of the most seductive notions investors have to contend with. How hard can it be, we ask ourselves, to sell when the market’s high and about to fall, and buy back in just as it hits...

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The lottery phenomenon in corporate debt

    The most basic principle of finance is that risk and ex-ante (expected) returns should be related. However, a large body of academic research (for example, here, here, here, and here) has found that individual investors (though not institutions) have an irrational...

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