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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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The Better Finance report that shames the European pensions industry

  We’ve all heard the one about the stockbroker for whom the definition of asset management is to invest your money and keep on investing it until there’s nothing left. But a new report by the Brussels-based investor rights group Better Finance suggests...

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Investing Demystified — Lars Kroijer (Video 1/5)

  Some of the most passionate advocates of passive investing, in my experience, are are former fund managers who have seen for themselves how active management works (or in most cases doesn’t). One such person is the former hedge fund manager Lars Kroijer....

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Video: Tales of a retired fund manager

Con Keating. I don’t want to make any comment on this video. I’d just like people to watch it and draw their own conclusions. It’s a ten-minute interview with Con Keating. Con was a highly successful fund manager in London and New York — so...

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Gender imbalance in investment management needs urgent attention — Blair duQuesnay

Gender diversity. Among the speakers at The Evidence-Based Investing Conference in New York City in November is Blair duQuesnay. Blair is considered one of the rising stars in the US advisory profession, and is the Chief Investment Officer at ThirtyNorth Investments in New...

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Fees for active investing more than 100% — Charley Ellis

  Of all the speakers at November’s Evidence-Based Investing Conference in New York City, perhaps none has done has more to advance the evidence-based approach than Charley Ellis. He was himself an active money manager, but he worked out in the early 1970s...

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#SFTW: Where now for transparency?

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Transparency I reported the other day on the fact that the world’s first transparency strategy summit was taking place at the House of Commons, organised by the Transparency Task Force. The event went ahead as planned on Monday, and...

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