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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...
Investing for retirement isn’t just about money
There are few prospects more frightening than running out of money in later life. That’s why it’s so important to start investing early, to put enough money away, diversify your investments, control your costs and manage your behaviour. But it’s a grave...
Why trust in financial services is so vital — Herman Brodie
There are few people more aware of the importance of trust in financial services than Herman Brodie. Formerly an algorithmic trader for an investment bank, he became fascinated by the predictable aspects of human behaviour and how that affects investing and the...
A documentary to help investors understand themselves
You may have seen some of our previous posts on the different aspects of investor behaviour covered by Regis Media’s video documentary series for RockWealth, Your Own Worst Enemy. The series is named after a quote from the famous investor Benjamin Graham,...
The ex-policeman trying to solve the investment cost riddle
Few people have done more to raise awareness of the cost of investing than CHRIS SIER. A trained statistician and former Edinburgh policeman, he’s spent more than a decade trying to calculate how much investors pay in fees and charges. He’s already...
France should have thousands of IFAs. Astonishingly there’s only one
France might be home to the world football champions and some of the finest food and wine, but there is at least one area in which it trails the Anglo-Saxon world. You’ve guessed it: evidence-based investing. PHILIPPE MAUPAS and JULIEN COUDERT recently...
The myth of average returns
An interesting observation I’ve made in the years I’ve been writing about investing is that the same myths are repeated again and again, and passed down from one generation to the next. Take the myth that index investors receive average returns or,...
