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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...
Daniel Kahneman: Why I’m against active investing
Daniel Kahneman, the Israeli-American psychologist, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his work on behavioural economics. His 2011 book Thinking, Fast and Slow has sold more than one and a half million copies worldwide. Kahneman has said little...
Three ways to shift the bell curve to the right
Most investment professionals, and most financial journalists, have a problem with the idea of randomness. They see patterns, even when there aren’t any, and they like to use those patterns to make predictions about the future — for example, which asset classes are...
Practising gratitude — an evidence-based way to boost your mood
I visited the London offices of Dimensional Fund Advisors a few weeks ago and was intrigued by a book in the waiting area. It’s called The Five-Minute Journal, and I found myself talking about it with David Jones, Head of Financial Adviser Services...
Carl Richards: Stop focusing on the wrong things
Most of us realise that worrying is irrational and counter-productive. Yet we can’t seem to stop ourselves, and research consistently shows that we worry about money and financial issues more than just about anything else. CARL RICHARDS is a financial adviser, writer and...
Michael Batnick on the greatest investors’ biggest clangers
All of us make mistakes, but, as Sir Winston Churchill once said, only the wise learn from them. What then can we learn from the mistakes of the world’s greatest investors? That’s the question Michael Batnick asks in his new book, Big Mistakes:...
Simple portfolios are best for billionaires too
Robin writes: Warren Buffett has often commented that it’s less-well-off investors who are most likely to heed his advice to keep investing simple and stick to low-cost index funds. “It seems so elementary,” Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders’ meeting in 2016,...
