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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...
How do fund managers invest their own money?
New research identifies active fund managers as a community under threat. In this video, we talked to King’s College London academic Professor CRAWFORD SPENCE about his findings and how many fund managers do not actually believe their own hype, and invest...
Are you a speculator or an investor?
Robin writes: There has been so much said and written in recent years about active and passive investing. Rightly so — it’s an important subject that investors need to understand. But active and passive isn’t necessarily the most helpful distinction. For...
Simon Bullock: Are you living your own authentic life?
Sadly, we’ve come to the end of our podcast series Second Lives. In it, my co-author Jonathan Hollow has been exploring how to plan a life for yourself beyond full-time paid employment. In this, the 12th and final episode, Jonathan speaks...
Stop looking for shortcuts
By ROBIN POWELL It’s human nature to seek shortcuts. Throughout our evolutionary history, conserving energy when food resources were scarce was crucial for survival. Thus, our brains have evolved to favour behaviours that require less effort. Seeking the easiest route...
Why women benefit from financial advice
There are a number of factors that hold women back when trying to invest. As King’s College London academic Dr. YLVA BAECKSTRÖM discusses in this video, these range from confidence issues all the way to systemic inequalities within the financial system....
Don’t be swayed by investment narratives
Narratives drive behaviour in all areas of life, and investing is no exception. In this video, Warwick Business School’s Professor RICHARD TAFFLER talks about the profound effect that narratives of all kinds have on markets and investor behaviour. TRANSCRIPT Robin...
