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Six months before he died, the legendary investor Benjamin Graham gave an hour-long interview at his home near San Diego to a financial...

Everybody would like to have financial security. No matter how much we enjoy our work, most of us would like the option in the future of...

It’s finally happened. For the first time in 26 years, and only the second time in Premier League history, all three promoted teams have...

Active funds promise market‑beating returns through clever stock‑picking and timely trades. Yet the evidence shows that very few deliver. ...

As taxpayers, we like to think that every dollar is put to good use. It's very frustrating to see our taxes wasted. But, every year, vast...

For many millions of Britons, 2023 was a financial wake-up call. A combination of inflation, higher interest rates and concerns about the...

Perhaps you never believed in the man on the moon. But you may well have thought, at some stage, that you saw the shape of an animal in a...

Trading stocks has become hugely popular, but it’s rarely a fair fight. The reality is, traders' opponents are often professionals with...

The vast majority of pensions funds, charities, endowments and other institutional portfolios have underperformed the market for decades....

I once had the privilege of doing an interview with the Nobel Prize-winning economist William Sharpe at his California home, in which we...

There are many reasons why we’re extremely fortunate to live in a wealthy country like the UK in the 21st century. One of the biggest is...

When you read a book like How to Fund the Life You Want, or Mark Hebner's Index Funds: The 12-Step Program for Active Investors, it can be tempting to try to manage your investments on your own. But is it a good idea? True, Index Funds is an extraordinary book. It equips you with all the information you need on the best way to invest. But it's one thing to have the knowledge you require, and quite another to put that knowledge into practice on an ongoing basis. The main rea

If there’s one personality trait I wish I didn’t have, it’s a tendency towards perfectionism. OK, it comes with a few upsides....

There is more information at our disposal than ever before. It’s available within seconds and with just a few clicks or taps on a screen....

If you ever watched Star Trek as a child you will doubtless recall Mr Spock. Famously portrayed by Leonard Nimoy in the original series...

It’s human nature to want to get the very most out of life, but it’s inevitable that some things don’t turn out as we would have liked...

Eugene Fama is a Nobel laureate in Economic Sciences and is often referred to as the father of modern finance. But if it weren't for a...

A common misconception is that it’s only really those on lower incomes who worry about money. But people right across the wealth spectrum...

People tend to focus on the accumulation phase of investing. But the decumulation phase, when you’re spending down your assets, is often...

Tributes have been paid by academics around the world for Daniel Kahneman , the Israeli-American psychologist and one of the pioneers of...