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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...
The new future shock
It’s now half a century since the American writer Alvin Toffler released the best-seller Future Shock, about what happens to societies overwhelmed by rapid change. While not claiming to be prophesy, Toffler’s book still resonates 50 years on. “Change is avalanching...
Strong opinions loosely held
Whether it’s Brexit, Trump or whether or not to eat meat, we live in an age of strongly held opinions. We decide to identify with a particular tribe, and then go looking for evidence that we made the right decision. There’s nothing...
A real long-term investment strategy
By PATRICK CAIRNS There are some obvious reasons for investors to use index funds. The first is their low cost. The only thing that you can control when investing is the fee you pay, and the less you have to hand...
When a bargain isn’t a bargain
By LESLEY GREGORY The retail sector is having a tough time and one response has been to try to attract buyers with special sales and discounts. And they’re not your standard 10 or 15 per cent off but sometimes discounts in...
Changing investing requires laser focus
The problem with climate change, says ROBIN POWELL, is not that we aren’t aware of the facts. The people with the power to act on it — politicians, business leaders and so on — generally are. The problem is they don’t take...
Great companies often make poor investments
Pick up any investment magazine, and the impression given is that investors should be looking to buy great companies. It might sound intuitive, but it’s generally a bad idea. As LARRY SWEDROE explains, it completely disregards one of the basic principles of...
