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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Why people invest in cryptocurrencies
By JOACHIM KLEMENT No matter whether you are a fan of cryptocurrencies or not, they are here to stay and more and more investors are buying some. Some people argue that cryptocurrencies are the new gold for the digital age,...
How to stop noise undermining your decisions
A woman, suffering from unexplained weight gain consulted her GP, who referred her to three different specialists. One concluded she was celiac, a second judged she was pre-diabetic and a third said none of the tests was conclusive. Welcome to the...
