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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...

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Every day’s Black Friday for indexers

I still remember my excitement as a child visiting the Rackhams department store in Birmingham in the January sales. Being able to buy, with my own pocket money, games and toys reduced to to a fraction of the price they were before Christmas...

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Video: The dangers of DIY investing

Warren Buffett told a brilliant story in his 2006 letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders, which every investor should read. The story concerns a family he calls the Gotrocks, which owns all of corporate America, and receives the full value of the profits earned...

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Why I’m supporting ShareAction’s Pension Power campaign

What really excites me about the disruption taking place in global asset management is the potential to make a real difference. An important part of that, of course, is achieving better consumer outcomes — simply put, allowing investors to keep a much bigger share...

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Can money buy you happiness?

Money and happiness. OK, this one’s is a little more philosophical than most TEBI posts, but please bear with me.  We all need to invest, but investing without a plan is a bad idea. And you can’t come up with a plan until...

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Bogle and Fama have more in common than you think

Of all the interviews I conducted for the online documentary How to Win the Loser’s Game, two stand out — one with Vanguard founder Jack Bogle and the other with the Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama. Both are giants of the financial world who have...

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#SFTW: More money than the wealth of Europe

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Europe. I’m pleased to announce that I’m going to be writing regularly for InvestWithETFs, a new website, based in the UK, which promotes low-cost, evidence-based investing. And, ta-da.. here is my very first post. It’s about the extraordinary growth in...

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