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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...
Investors’ need for a narrative
Human beings understand the world through story-telling. The organising narrative structure of a beginning, a middle and an end helps us make sense of complexity. But in the world of investment, our need for tidy narratives can steer us in the...
What you need to know about comparison websites
By LESLEY GREGORY Have you used a hotel booking website to find accommodation when going on holiday? Perhaps you’ll look at energy or insurance comparison websites as you review your budget or contracts this year. These sites can save you time...
How can you discipline yourself to invest more?
One of the reasons why people find investing harder than they should is that human beings are hard-wired to focus on the here and now. We’re much more concerned about immediate threats than longer-term dangers such as failing to invest enough money...
How to deal with the behavioural challenges of bear markets
By JOE WIGGINS It is at times of severe market stress that our worst behavioural impulses come to pass. Whilst the recent losses in the value of portfolios are undoubtedly painful; the poor decisions that we will make as a result...
Leaders emerge in times of crisis
By ROBIN POWELL “The biggest global event since World War II” was how one of my fellow financial bloggers described the coronavirus crisis the other day. And you have to say he’s probably right. It’s an emergency that’s affecting the whole...
Are we really heading for a zombie apocalypse?
By JOACHIM KLEMENT I have written before about how education trains us to think in a specific way. Back then, I mentioned that I like to follow the maxim of Carl Jacobi to “invert, always invert”. By teasing out from market prices the...
