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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...
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...
How to free up money for investing
If putting enough money away each month for your retirement is not a priority, your priorities are wrong. Or, as Warren Buffett once put it: “Don’t save what is left after spending. Spend what is left after saving.” There’s no golden rule...
Talk of a passive bubble is just hot air
By LARRY SWEDROE Passive bubble. The active investment management community has been attacking indexing—and passive investing in general—for decades. The reason is obvious: its profits (and for many firms, their very survival) are at stake. The attacks began almost from the moment...
Labour’s right — it’s time for action on City bonuses
The financial industry doesn’t magically make our money grow. After fees and charges, it makes it shrink. Lavish City bonuses are therefore out of all proportion — and they need paring back. With the likelihood of a UK General Election before...
The beating-the-market myth
Much of the mainstream media commentary around investing carries with it the assumption that beating the market should be everyone’s goal. But what does that mean? And does it make any sense? Essentially, the idea that ordinary investors can consistently do better...
