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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...
Why cap-weighting dominates
There are all sorts of ways to construct an index. Equal weighting has its fans. Alternatively you can weight by factors — size, value and so on. If you really wanted to, you could build an index of listed companies with female...
Five ways to boost your financial resilience
When a crisis comes, panic usually isn’t far behind. Many of us are now living with the threat (or the reality) of redundancy or a drop in income. Social distancing rules and self-isolation has hit businesses hard, prompting fears of the worst...
The patience of a saint
By ROBIN POWELL This article was originally written for the Suitable Advice Institute. “Successful investing takes time, discipline and patience,” Warren Buffett once wrote. “No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time. You can’t produce...
For every buyer there must be a seller
The greatest advantage from gambling comes from not playing at all. — Girolamo Cardano, 16th-century physician, mathematician and quintessential Renaissance man ◊ This tale is part of LARRY SWEDROE’s Investor Tales series. Like all the tales, unless otherwise specified, they are...
Getting comfortable with your enough
Welcome to the final part of our series Rethinking Money with CARL RICHARDS. Carl is an expert in human behaviour — specifically in relation to money. To round off the series, we’re addressing one of the most important questions everyone should ask...
The best forecaster of all?
“In the UK, warnings about continued economic stagnation in 2020 have not stopped stock market experts from predicting the FTSE 100 could break through the 8,000 mark for the first time this year.” – 2020 Stock Market Predictions, The Week, Jan...
