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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...
Investors of the world unite
One of the things I enjoy most about my work promoting evidence-based investing is the camaraderie of like-minded people around the world. World unite. This is a global battle we’re fighting, to teach people, wherever they live and however little they have...
Charley Ellis: Why active managers extract value from investing
For me, Charley Ellis is one of the investing world’s great consumer campions. In the mid-1970s, he became the first industry insider to acknowledge that most active fund managers fail to beat their benchmarks and that investors are far better off using...
Something for the weekend
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Ah, the joys of England in August.. The sun’s shining, school’s out and the Poms are thrashing Australia at cricket. But none of those things will last for long, so let’s enjoy them while we can.. along...
Video: Don’t assume outperformance is down to skill
“Men resist randomness, markets resist prophecy.” Maggie Mahar The need to make sense of things is a basic human instinct. We want to feel we understand what’s happening around us. So we create our own order. We invent narratives and look for...
Something for the weekend
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Each Friday I’ll be sharing with you my reads of the week. The 3rd Ashes Test Match is already over, so what better way to while away the first weekend in August? Here in Blighty.. How...
Where’s the evidence?
“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.” Bertrand Russell Perhaps never before in history have human beings attached so much importance to evidence. Throughout the centuries, our ancestors largely did...
