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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...
Safe yields RIP. What are your options now?
Investors have always been drawn towards safe investments offering attractive yields. But with interest rates on cash savings and yields on government bonds at or near zero, investors today don’t have that luxury. So what are your options now there are few...
Seven simple rules of investing
For all the talk of elaborate remedies, the essential advice in the coronavirus crisis has been to wash your hands regularly, avoid touching your face and practise social distancing. The essential toolkit for long-term investors is similarly minimalist. Of course, financial...
The book that helped launch a financial revolution
By BERLINDA LIU The author is Director of Global Research & Design at S&P Dow Jones Indices In 1973, Princeton professor Burton Malkiel wrote the book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, laying out a case against the mutual funds of...
We believe because we want to
You don’t need a PhD in psychology to know that people will believe they want to believe. Look at any divisive issue — Trump, Brexit, compulsory vaccination, the existence of God etc. — and people on both sides will reject information that...
Put the odds of success in your favour
By PATRICK CAIRNS By any measure, 2020 has been an extraordinary year for stock markets. After experiencing such a swift crash in February and March, the S&P 500 has since enjoyed its strongest quarter since 1998. From the start of April...
Pension saving — the sooner you start the better
Financially, the coronavirus crisis is a huge blow for many young people. In the short-to-medium term, job prospects don’t look good. In the longer term, the huge government bailouts we’ve been seeing need to be paid for; today’s twenty-somethings will be...
