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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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Link’s role in Woodford fiasco laid bare in new book

    A new book on the collapse of Woodford Investment Management has detailed the pivotal role played by Link Fund Solutions. Financial Times journalist OWEN WALKER, author of Built on a Lie, says that as Authorised Corporate Director for WIM, Link bears...

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DIY trading boom storing up problems for the future

  There’s been a huge increase in DIY trading during the coronavirus pandemic — particularly among young people. Sparrows Capital’s MARK NORTHWAY fears we could be storing up problems for the future. This article was first published by IFA Magazine and is reprinted...

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It’s time for some humility from Hargreaves Lansdown

  By ROBIN POWELL   As a journalist, you have to smile when people in authority blame the media when things to wrong. What they tend to forget, of course, is that it’s often because of the media that they got to where...

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The Covid crash one year on: how was it for you?

  It’s 12 months since the sharp falls in global stock markets resulting from the spread of Covid-19. The falls began in the last week of February. There was another steep decline on 9th March. Two days later, President Trump announced a travel...

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Can active managers time factor exposures?

  By LARRY SWEDROE   One of the advantages active managers tout is that they have the opportunity to adjust factor exposures, taking advantage of regime shifts. Is that ability an advantage, or just one that is fraught with opportunity?  Manuel Ammann, Sebastian...

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Three reasons for active managers to feel positive

  By CRAIG LAZZARA   For at least five years, we’ve noticed that, despite historical performance, active managers regularly proclaim that this year will at last be the time when active management shows its value. I suspect that most advocates of indexing derive at least some guilty...

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