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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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Go on, be a sissy

Sissy. A funny thing happened the day after Christmas at the Toyota Center in Houston. An unknown rookie basketball player by the name of Chinanu Onuaku stepped up to the free throw line and threw the ball underarm, or “granny style”, towards the...

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Podcast Episode 7: See you in court

Sue. As regular TEBI readers know, the academic evidence overwhelmingly shows that most investors are better off investing in low-cost index funds. But most financial advisers still recommend actively managed funds instead. As a result, investors are ending up with pension pots considerably...

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A balanced view of rebalancing

  There is no single best way to invest. Everyone of us, after all, is different. And although the key principles are irrefutable — the benefits of diversification, for example, or the importance of cost — there are some grey areas. One of those areas...

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#Dow20k — it’s only a number

  At the time of writing, excitement is mounting that today may finally be the day the Dow Jones Index hits 20,000. Here at TEBI we can hardly wait 😉! Sorry, I don’t mean to be a killjoy. Humans instinctively find comfort in...

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Who are you calling mindless, Mr Odey?

  Crispin Odey is not a big fan of index funds. Odey, a City of London hedge fund manager and darling of the financial media, whose net worth at the last count was put at around £900 million, recently complained that “naturally skilled...

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How to save active management

Assuming you have at least a passing interest in investing and you haven’t been living on Planet Zog, it can’t have escaped your notice that active fund management is having a tough time. Last year’s financial news was dominated, in the US at...

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