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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...
How persistent is outperformance in venture capital?
By LARRY SWEDROE Investors who believe in active management rely on the past performance of the managers they select. Unfortunately, when it comes to stocks, bonds and hedge funds, there’s no evidence of persistence of outperformance beyond the randomly expected. However,...
The problem with themes like robotics
Pick up any investment magazine, and chances are there’ll be at least one article about a popular investment theme and how you might be able to profit from it. Themes such as healthcare, robotics and green technology are especially popular at the...
Would Trump or Biden be better for stocks?
Is investing an art or a science? Those who insist it is the latter believe everything can be quantified and reduced to a model that increases one’s odds of success. Those who favour the former view think instinct and intuition will get...
Should you take voluntary redundancy?
By LESLEY GREGORY Having taken a big hit to its bottom line because of the COVID crisis, a friend’s employer recently opened a voluntary redundancy program. Kate has to decide by the end of this month whether she’ll be one of...
The story behind Index Fund Advisors
Mark Hebner is a true pioneer of evidence-based investing. He’s the founder of Index Fund Advisors, one of the first financial advice firms in the world to work with Dimensional Fund Advisors. Based in Irvine, California, the firm has around $3.7 billion...
Let’s make EBI fun, Part 2
We recently featured a funny video on market efficiency, presented by the comedian Sammy Obeid. The video was written and directed by David Stolin, Professor of Finance at Toulouse Business School. We asked Professor Stolin how the video came about — and...
