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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...
Why the latest attack on passive investing is nonsense
By LARRY SWEDROE The active investment management community has been attacking indexing — and passive investing in general — for decades. The reason is obvious: their profits (and for many firms, their very survival) are at stake. The attacks began almost...
Why you should sell your second car
By LESLEY GREGORY Are you a two-car household? We are, and I frequently question why we don’t ditch the second car — usually when I’m trying to find an on-street parking spot at the end of the day. It’s not just...
Why are investors prone to overconfidence?
It’s good to have a positive outlook on life. But too much optimism, or overconfidence, can be a problem, particularly when it comes to investing. In this video, Lisa Bortolotti, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, explains why investors need...
A lesson still worth learning three centuries later
By PATRICK CAIRNS This year marks the 300th anniversary of one of the world’s most famous financial catastrophes: the South Sea Bubble. It is a story with complex origins, but the pattern of events in 1720 has unfortunately been repeated in...
The smarter you try to be, the worse you do
Have you noticed that everybody is an expert nowadays? Every opinion is deemed as valid as every other and people, at least in their own minds, quickly ascend to savant status on the basis of reading a feature article on their favourite...
Take heart from the resilience of capitalism
It can be very uncomfortable being an equity investor when markets are falling. Everywhere you look it seems there’s more bad news. Everyone appears to be selling their riskier assets and heading for the security of cash or government bonds. It can...
