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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...
Still no sign of the customers’ yachts
You might consider the third superhero in our #InvestingSuperheroes video series, Fred Schwed Jr, a strange choice. Schwed had a rather undistinguished career as a stock trader, which came to an abrupt end in October 1929, when he came badly unstuck in...
The biggest risk investors face
Most people are familiar with the recipe for happiness espoused by Mr Micawber in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield: risk. “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds...
The real reason active funds attract more media coverage
Is the financial media biased towards actively managed funds? There are certainly far more articles about active than passive, both in the trade press and in mainstream publications. In one sense, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. After all, even in the United States,...
Something we can all do in memory of Jack Bogle
There have been several suggestions made for a fitting tribute to the late Jack Bogle. Of course, Warren Buffett once suggested that “if a statue is ever erected to honuor the person who has done the most for American investors, the hands-down...
Tributes to an investing legend
Tributes to the late, great Jack Bogle continue to pour in thick and fast. As Barry Ritholtz put it the other day, praise for the man compounds, just like his returns. I’ve put together a selection of tributes below, in no particular...
My personal debt of gratitude to Jack Bogle
So we’ve lost a legend. I’ve seen so many wonderful tributes* to Jack Bogle over the last few hours that there’s nothing I feel I can add about the man that hasn’t already been said. I had the privilege of meeting him twice....