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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...
#SFTW Now the good news — Transparency is coming
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Transparency For anyone who wants to see a fairer, more transparent asset management industry, this five-minute interview is compulsory viewing. Transparency. It features Andy Agathangelou, founding chair of the Transparency Task Force, of which I have recently become an...
Andy Agathangelou: The campaign for transparency in asset management
For anyone who wants to see a fairer, more transparent asset management industry, this five-minute interview is compulsory viewing. It features Andy Agathangelou, founding chair of the Transparency Task Force, of which I have recently become an Ambassador. In the video, Andy...
John Oliver demolishes active fund management
I’ve always liked John Oliver, but I’m now an even bigger fan of this Birmingham-boy-made-good after a hilarious takedown of the financial services sector on American television. It first aired in the US eight weeks ago. Frustratingly, it has only just been...
Sleeping with the enemy
Transparency. For those of us who’ve worked out how it operates, it’s hard not to feel resentful of the investing industry. Depending on where in the world they are, investors are typically losing between a half and two-thirds of their potential returns in...
Off to Africa
I’m off to Africa tomorrow and won’t be doing much blogging for the next ten days, but I’m really excited about my trip. I will be speaking at the 4th annual 10X Investments Conference in Johannesburg on Tuesday, and then at a...
Want to understand asset management? Read the FT
One of the great journalists of the 20th century died the other day. Sydney Schanberg from Massachusetts was best known for his coverage of the war in Cambodia, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting.
