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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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Should investors be worried about US government debt?

    Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing. — Bernard Baruch   As the chief research officer of Buckingham Wealth Partners, I’ve been getting lots of calls from investors concerned about the rapid growth in US government debt. The concerns are based...

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Random noise influences advice, study finds

    Human financial advice, while undoubtedly valuable, can also be extremely inconsistent and influenced by such factors as whether advisers are married, their level of education or even how they are paid. That’s the conclusion of a recently released study — Under...

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Booth and Fama on rising inflation

    The global economy is enjoying one of the strongest recoveries from recession since 1945. Factory gate prices for Chinese goods, for example, rose at the fastest rate since the financial crisis in May on the back of soaring commodity costs. It’s...

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Thousands of Woodford investors will never see justice

  Last week marked the second anniversary of the suspension of Woodford Equity Income, the flagship fund of the now disgraced asset manager Neil Woodford. For ROBIN POWELL, the time has come to acknowledge that many thousands of Woodford investors will have died...

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Complexity: another reason why you need advice

    The truth is that many young people simply don’t need financial advice: the important thing is simply to develop the right habits. But our lives are never simple, and with age comes with greater complexity. In this, the second in a...

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Return signal momentum: a new strategy worth following?

  There is a vast body of academic research on momentum as an explanatory factor in the cross-section of returns, beginning with the 1993 seminal paper of Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman, Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers: Implications for Stock Market...

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