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Fund selection: the fired beat the hired
By ROBIN POWELL Outperforming the financial markets by identifying what securities to buy and sell, and when, is very hard. To quote Mark Hebner in his award-winning book Index Funds: The 12-Step Recovery Program for Active Investors by now in its tenth edition: “Picking stocks or bonds is an ill-fated strategy that wastes time,...
The most important advice for investors? Do less — Tadas Viskanta
There are only about half a dozen blogs in the world that those with a serious interest in investing need to follow. One of them is Tadas Viskanta’s Abnormal Returns. For me, Tadas is the best curator of quality investing content on...
Video: UK investing is several decades behind the US — John Authers
It’s funny how, throughout life, our paths cross with other people’s. More years ago than either of us care to remember, John Authers and I once competed for the editorship of the Oxford University Students’ Union magazine. We now find ourselves on...
Poor fund performance is a global problem — Craig Lazzara (Part 2)
Since S&P Dow Jones issued its first SPIVA report 2002, this twice-yearly scorecard on active fund performance has consistently shown that, in the US, actively managed mutual funds routinely underperform their respective benchmarks in every asset class and almost every style. But,...
It’s time to get tough on investing gobbledygook
The investing industry is like a foreign country; they do things differently there. For a start they operate by a completely different set of rules to other sectors; they enjoy average levels of pay most professions can only dream about; and the...
#SFTW: 1 in 5 millennials will live to 100. Better start saving
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Millennials. There was a wake-up call for millennial investors this week with the publication of the latest BlackRock Investor Pulse Survey. Millennials. Apparently, on average, those aged between 25 and 34 predict they will only live to see their...
Greater longevity comes at a huge price
There are few experiences more sobering than walking round a graveyard, surrounded by the mortal remains of your ancestors. Longevity. My mother’s family were Partingtons and for centuries they lived in and around the industrial town in Greater Manchester from which they...
