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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...
Is the growth of passive investing increasing volatility?
By LARRY SWEDROE The continued rapid growth in market share of passive investing has been accompanied by continuing attacks on it by Wall Street and the financial media. One article called passive investing worse than Marxism. Another said it was causing...
Don’t leave your best investor on the subs’ bench
By ANDREW HALLAM In the 1990s, the Chicago Bulls were the best basketball team in the NBA. Michael Jordan was king. He led his team to six NBA championships. But what if the coach had kept Jordan on the bench? If...
Two amazing facts about finance
The third of our articles serialising ANDREW CRAIG’s book How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely covers the two simple, but amazing, facts about finance that we should all be aware of. Andrew has worked in...
Don’t fight the rapids
David Booth, the co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, has written an article for Worth which is well worth reading. Here are some of the things he had to say. The markets as a raging river “Think of the markets’ force as...
Beware investing in serviced accommodation
By JASON BUTLER As part of my ongoing research into personal finance, I recently attended an education session on “serviced accommodation”. This is a form of property investing or business activity which involves letting out residential properties on a very short...
DFA’s new investment factor explained
This is a guest post from DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS For nearly 40 years, research at Dimensional has focused on advancing the understanding of what drives differences in expected returns among securities. Recent research into the behaviour of stocks with high investment,...
