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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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Fee transparency will end the active versus passive debate

  “I’m not interested in active versus passive any more,” a London-based financial adviser told me the other day. “The argument has been won. What I’m interested in now is transparency.” He’s right about active versus passive. Not that you’d have guessed it...

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How to tell a fiduciary from a salesman

The most important thing to ascertain when choosing an adviser is whether or not he or she is a fiduciary. Will they put your interests first, at all times, even when it’s not in their own interests to do so?

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#SFTW: Railways, cars & dotcoms — unmissable opportunities you were better off missing

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Opportunities For most investors, buying individual stocks is a bad idea for a number of reasons. But there’s growing evidence that newly listed companies in particular are worth avoiding. New listings inevitably receive a disproportionate amount of media attention;...

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Why are new listings so volatile?

For most investors, buying individual stocks is a bad idea for a number of reasons. But there’s growing evidence that newly listed companies in particular are worth avoiding.

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New from TEBI — articles for evidence-based advisers

  I’ve been asked by several advisory firms over the last few months whether I’d be willing to write articles or blog posts for them. I’ve always said no, but I’ve now had a sufficient number of enquiries to make me change my...

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On average we’re average. Get over it

  People often struggle with the concept of average. Particularly us Anglo-Saxons. It’s instilled in us from an early age that we must do our best — and be the best we can at whatever it is we do. If you’re anything less...

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