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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...

Podcast Episode 11: ETFs — good or bad?

The subject of this week’s TEBI Podcast is ETFs, or exchange-traded funds. ETFs have been all the rage in recent years, soaring in popularity all over the world. In the US, a total of $124 billion has poured into ETFs in the first two...

Monkeys really do make better investors than humans

It was Burton Malkiel who famously said in his his 1973 bestseller, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, that “a blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper’s financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully...

Less than faithful stewards

Another day, another piece of evidence that the UK asset managers are less than faithful stewards of the nation’s retirement savings. Actually, scratch that — another press release has just landed from the Financial Conduct Authority, detailing a second area in which the...

Buffett: The simple maths that means indexing MUST win

I don’t know about you, but I’ve read just about enough articles about Warren Buffett for one week. As happens every year, there’s been a huge response to his latest letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders — much of it from money managers, brokers...

Buffett: “Stick with low-cost index funds”

Warren Buffett could not have made it plainer over the years — money managers and investment consultants are not worth their fees, and the vast majority of investors (including institutions) should stick with index funds instead. He made the point again on...