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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...
Why plumbers offer better value than fund managers
No one in their right mind, you’d think, would pay a pay a professional to do a job when, in all likelihood, they could actually do it better without them. Yet that’s precisely what investors do when they buy an actively managed...
#SFTW: Why facts don’t win debates on Twitter
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Twitter. To be honest I should have worked it out long ago — and it would have saved me a great deal of time, let alone aggravation, if I had. The lightbulb moment for me came about a year ago,...
You’ll never win an argument on Twitter
To be honest, I should have worked it out long ago — and it would have saved me a great deal of time, let alone aggravation, if I had. The lightbulb moment for me came about a year ago, in conversation with Gina Miller,...
Frank: No greater love
Important though investing is, there are of course far more important things in life, so forgive me for devoting today’s post to something completely different. Frank Valentine Pearman was an ordinary working man who made an extra-ordinary sacrifice. On 3rd May 1917 — one...
Financial incentives can blind us to the evidence
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair When I first started writing about active fund management for Sensible Investing TV five years ago, I generally found it...
Bob Seawright: behavioural finance is as much a part of EBI as indexing
If you want to come to Evidence-Based Investing West, the clock’s ticking. The event is just eight weeks away. One of the speakers you’ll be missing if you decide against it is Bob Seawright. When, in September 2014, The Wall Street Journal published...
