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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...
Five better strategies than timing the market
It’s the great investor fantasy: quit the stock market at the top and buy back in at the bottom. While the lure of market timing sells millions of books and is standard fodder for financial television, the reality rarely lives up to...
What rugby union can teach us about investing
You’re going to be hearing about rugby union plenty of times between now and 2nd November. That’s because the 2019 Rugby World Cup gets under way tomorrow in Japan, with 20 teams taking part. It’s the first time the tournament is to be held...
David Booth on AK47s and the inverted yield curve
David Booth, co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, was interviewed on Squawk Box on CNBC yesterday, and had some interesting things to say on subjects ranging from the inverted yield curve to gun control. Here are some of the highlights: Market...
Lower fees, better results
By BEN JOHNSON We have just published the midyear 2019 instalment of the Morningstar Active/Passive Barometer. The Active/Passive Barometer measures active fund managers’ performance relative to their passive peers across 20 Morningstar Categories that together account for $12.5 trillion in...
A tipping point in attitudes to climate change?
2019 will doubtless go down in history as the year that Britain became obsessed with Brexit. Just now, there seems to be no escaping it. But is the media’s fixation on relations with Europe obscuring the fact that Britons are becoming increasingly...
The ABC of investing
I had a call the other day from a BBC journalist. She was making a programme about investing for beginners. What, she asked, would I say is the ABC of investing? Thankfully, I was well prepared because my colleagues and I had...
