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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...
George Kinder on the benefits of mindful investing
It struck me the other day quite how big the mindfulness industry has become. Browsing in WH Smith at Euston Station, I was amazed at many books and magazines there were on the subject. There was even a wide selection of mindfulness...
Stock price movements: how predictable are they?
Now for the second in our series Investing Fundamentals. In the first part we looked at risk, uncertainly and volatility, and how much risk you should take. Here we ask another question: how predictable or otherwise are stock price movements? What...
An emergency fund is a necessity, not a luxury
By JASON BUTLER Life has a habit of throwing you curve balls. Some of those curve balls relate to money. Whether it’s your car needing repairs having failed its latest MOT, a school trip that your child forgot to tell you...
Resulting — what it is and why it misleads investors and poker players
By LARRY SWEDROE That’s what diversification is for. It’s an explicit recognition of ignorance. — Peter Bernstein Investment strategy should be based on the following few core principles. First, the market is highly, though not perfectly, efficient. Second, it therefore...
Do IPO returns match the hype?
Initial public offerings, or IPOs, often attract considerable, both from the media and from investors. But as this article from DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS explains, the long-term returns that IPO stocks deliver are often disappointing. Initial public offerings (IPOs) often attract...
Calm down. We’re not all going to die (at least not yet)
By PRESTON McSWAIN Stock market news was not good yesterday. Stories like this have been circulating like crazy: Stocks Plunge as a War Deepens If Your Pension is Invested in the Stock Market, You Lost Big Today World’s Richest Lose $117...
