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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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Where are you looking for information on investing?

    Five things investors need to know   5. PEOPLE TELL YOU WHAT THEY WANT TO TELL YOU     LOUISE COOPER is a financial journalist who works for the BBC and several national newspapers. In the last in the series, she...

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Most (yes, most) stocks fail

    By LARRY SWEDROE   Individual stock ownership offers both the hope of great returns (finding the next Google, for instance) and the potential for disastrous results (ending up with the next Enron). Because investors are not compensated for taking the risk...

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Top-quartile returns guaranteed

    Investing pioneer and friend of TEBI Charles Ellis has been dropping truth bombs again — this time in an interview with Howard Gold at MarketWatch. Best known as the author of the classic book Winning the Loser’s Game, Charley is now...

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Do well and do good

    There is often a vast gulf between what people think financial advice is all about and what it actually is. The popular view that advice is solely focused on picking good investments is akin to the view of a GP as...

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Stressing about rising inflation achieves nothing

    Robin writes: I distinctly remember learning about inflation at around the age of eight. Why, I asked my dad, did petrol stations seem to be changing their advertised prices every day? And why, after months of patiently saving my pocket money,...

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Star stock pickers exist, but do they add value?

    By LARRY SWEDROE   For decades, academics and practitioners alike have been searching for evidence of star stock pickers — skilful money managers who genuinely add value. But they’ve had little success in finding persistence beyond the randomly expected. In their...

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