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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 do councils waste so much money on pensions?
Britain’s cash-strapped local councils are struggling to keep libraries open and pot-holes filled. So why are they overpaying by hundreds of millions of pounds a year to have their pension funds managed? In his latest article for the True and Fair...
Do institutional asset managers possess skill?
By LARRY SWEDROE Since 2002 S&P Dow Jones Indices has published its S&P Indices Versus Active (SPIVA) Scorecard, which compares the performance of actively managed equity mutual funds to their appropriate index benchmarks. Year after year they show that regardless of...
Don’t let your investments go the way of the CD
Thematic investing might sound appealing, but beware of investing in headlines rather than for meeting your goals.
Reviewers wanted for my new book
Robin writes: I’ve co-written a book with the highly respected financial blogger and author Ben Carlson about investing. It’s called Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom, and it’ll be published by Harriman House on 28th September. It’s aimed at people in...
Leveraged ETFs: another product for the junk pile
By LARRY SWEDROE The use of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has exploded, to the benefit of investors. They benefit from the structure of ETFs because they can operate more tax efficiently than mutual funds and generally have lower operating costs than...
Where will the next shock come from?
It’s a fact of life that economic shocks are never too far away. Yes, we’re still recovering from the last one — the COVID-19 pandemic. But that doesn’t mean to say there isn’t another shock just around the corner. GLEN ARNOLD is...
