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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...
Wall and Main are two different streets
We’ve written several times lately about the apparent disconnect between the economy and the stock market. Surely, people are saying, global markets should be lower than they are because of all the bad economic news around? There are several explanations, not least...
Three hundred and twenty billion dollars
$320 billion is a colossal sum of money. And that’s the value of the cumulative savings in fund management fees that US investors have made over the last 24 years by using investment products linked to the different S&P Dow Jones indices....
Make sure your last words don’t leave ill will
By LESLEY GREGORY There’s no feud like a family feud, yet that’s what many people bequeath their loved ones either because they didn’t make a will or their last words have been poorly drafted. It’s estimated that about half of us...
Panic and sell, now what?
By LARRY SWEDROE The academic literature on investing is filled with hundreds of anomalies. My own view is that the greatest anomaly of them all is that while investors idolise Warren Buffett, the “Oracle of Omaha”, so many not only tend...
Is the stock market Democrat or Republican?
By ROBIN POWELL The countdown is well and truly on for the US Presidential election. You might have a hunch as to whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is going to win. You may also have a strong preference for one...
Is there such a thing as a “normal” stock market?
What investors should always expect from the stock market is unpredictability.
