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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...
What investors can learn from Moneyball
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end. — Warren Buffett In 1977, Bill James self-published a book he called 1977 Baseball Abstract: Featuring 18 Categories of Statistical Information That You Just Can’t Find Anywhere Else. 75...
A wasted opportunity for Australia’s fund managers
How have Australia’s active fund managers handled the coronavirus crisis so far? PRISCILLA LUK from S&P Dow Jones Indices has been looking at the numbers. With the COVID-19 pandemic, equity markets around the world experienced massive declines with heightened volatility, and...
Don’t judge people based on money
We generally don’t like talking about money. But, let’s face of it, most of us spend time wondering how wealthy other people are. We also tend to judge people, including ourselves, according to the purchases we make. As CARL RICHARDS explains in...
What do ageing populations mean for your portfolio?
By NICOLAS RABENER Summary There is a negative relationship between ageing populations and stock valuations Given that most developed markets are ageing, this creates structural headwinds for equities The massive future population declines require investors to rethink traditional asset allocation ...
There is such a thing as too much choice
By PATRICK CAIRNS Back in 2000, two psychologists published a study about jam. Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper wanted to know what happens when you give consumers more or less choice. On different days at an up-market store, they put out...
Four things I’m aiming for
JONATHAN CLEMENTS is a veteran financial journalist. He spent nearly 20 years on the Wall Street Journal and has written several books about investing and personal finance. But what about his own financial priorities? What are his goals now at the age...
