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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...
Vanguard vs Dimensional: Who has delivered higher returns?
Vanguard and Dimensional Fund Advisors are both good fund managers — albeit with two very different methodologies. Investors should be able to achieve good outcomes with either one or the other, or a combination of the two. But which of them, Vanguard...
It’s time to invest IN the future, not just for it
In the past few months, multiple governments – both national and regional – have declared a climate emergency. Canada has done so. The Welsh Government did in April. Even Pope Francis has, saying that a failure to urgently reduce greenhouse gases would...
Robin’s Reads, Week 44, 2019
Week 44. By ROBIN POWELL INVESTING Investors giving up on the value premium are making a classic mistake (Larry Swedroe) There’s a strong case for global diversification (and yes, for US investors too) (Victor Haghani & James White) Who delivers higher...
Value premium RIP? Don’t you believe it
By LARRY SWEDROE The relative performance of value stocks in the U.S. has been so poor in the past few years that many investors have jumped to the conclusion that the value premium is dead. One explanation offered for the death...
Does our obsession with property make financial sense?
By JOACHIM KLEMENT Every language has words that are not translatable into other languages. I have written about the German term “abgeschossene Halbbildung” before, but today, I want to focus on an English expression that is unknown in German (and I think in...
The road less travelled
Individual securities. By CHRIS BENNETT It is a truth universally acknowledged that liquidity is critical to market health; typically when liquidity falls, volatility rises. The Financial Times recently cited claims that the increased use of passive investment vehicles had caused trading volumes in individual...
