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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 women handle market corrections better than men
Plenty of progress has been made over recent decades on sexual equality in the workplace, but there is one sector of the economy that stands out as the last great bastion of male domination. It’s the investing industry. Recent studies show that...
CNBC? Investors are better off watching Comedy Central
When people started calling my former employer Sensible Investing TV “the anti-CNBC”, we wore it as a badge of honour. It’s not that CNBC is bad. On the contrary, it’s well produced and presented very professionally. The problem for me is that, other...
A fund is a fund, not a fashion accessory
I always thought I wouldn’t, but I’m afraid I’ve become one of those tedious parents who lecture their children on the folly of paying for designer clothes. There are times I seem to be making progress. My son even agreed recently to wear...
In choosing party leaders it pays to take a long-term view
I promise not to stray too often in this blog into that most divisive of subjects, party politics. But there seems to me to be a striking parallel between current political developments in the UK, US and elsewhere and something that happens time...
Something for the weekend
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND One of the biggest challenges I face as an advocate of evidence-based investing is helping people to visualise just how much more they’re paying to invest in actively managed funds. Well, thanks to author Lars Kroijer, I now...
Where are the customers’ Porsches?
Lars Kroijer is one of the most intriguing – and intelligent – hedge fund managers you could ever wish to meet. A Harvard-educated Dane, he used to run his own hedge fund in London and still serves on the board of several others....
