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What is evidence-based investing?
Nobody can establish who first used the phrase 'evidence-based investing', and no regulator defines it. Robin Powell, who was given the name by Larry Swedroe in 2015 and is sometimes wrongly credited with coining it, sets out what it actually means: four tests of what counts as evidence, borrowed from a medical parallel that hit the same crisis twelve years ago. Including where he goes further than a global tracker, and why he holds that position less firmly than he used to.
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Where the Dumb Money movie falls down
By ROBIN POWELL I watched Dumb Money , the new movie about the GameStop saga, the other day. I must say I enjoyed it. But it tells us...
Robin Powell
Oct 2, 20231 min read
There's hope yet for St James's Place
St James's Place Wealth Management is one of Britain's most successful financial services firms. But SJP, a combined financial advice...
Robin Powell
Sep 30, 20233 min read
What LTCM co-founder Victor Haghani learned from its collapse
25 years ago this month, catastrophic losses at the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, or LTCM, almost brought the entire financial...
Robin Powell
Sep 27, 20239 min read
Private credit has its dangers — caveat emptor
Private credit is an asset class that's very much in vogue. The global private credit market has now exceeded $1.5 trillion. Those who...
Robin Powell
Sep 25, 20231 min read
How do you view the stock market?
For many people, the stock market is all about speculating and making a quick profit. But, in this video, LARRY BATES, a former...
Robin Powell
Sep 25, 20233 min read
How important is it to have a financial plan?
Getting Started is our video series aimed at first-time investors, featuring JONATHAN HOLLOW. This time we look at how instrumental a...
Robin Powell
Sep 21, 20231 min read
Why do so many sports stars go broke?
What do Mike Tyson, Boris Becker and John Barnes have in common? Yes, all were very highly paid sports stars in the late 1980s and early...
Robin Powell
Sep 20, 20232 min read
Ikigai author Héctor GarcÃa on life lessons from Japan
Robin writes: We may think that the world is becoming more and more uniform, and that people’s lives everywhere are converging. Even if...
Robin Powell
Sep 19, 202319 min read
Three big investing mistakes to avoid
Successful investing is as much about avoiding mistakes as anything else. In this video, investment journalist MOIRA O'NEILL tells ROBIN...
Robin Powell
Sep 18, 20232 min read
Financial planning for everyone
Robin writes: I believe in financial planning for everyone. Currently, only a small percentage of UK adults have a financial plan, or a financial planner they can turn to when they need assistance. I want to change that. In my view, we should all have a plan, and access to a professional planner, regardless of our wealth or circumstances. Why do so few people have a financial plan? Why, then, don't more people have a financial plan in place? Well, it’s complicated. But the fi
Robin Powell
Sep 15, 20233 min read
How to choose the right financial adviser for you
In this latest video in our Getting Started series for first-time investors, JONATHAN HOLLOW takes us through the process you can take...
Robin Powell
Sep 14, 20232 min read
Property or pension — which is the better investment?
Robin writes: Property or pension? From a purely financial point of view, which is likely to provide the highest return? That’s the topic...
Robin Powell
Sep 12, 20238 min read
ESG investing – what exactly is it?
ESG investing has become very popular in recent years, but what exactly is it? And what is the best way to go about it? In this video,...
Robin Powell
Sep 11, 20233 min read
What can we learn from David Swensen?
Robin writes: When I first heard about the growth of index investing in the United States 12 years ago,I decided there were five key...
Robin Powell
Sep 8, 20232 min read
Do investors need the assistance of a financial adviser?
Getting Started is our video series aimed at first-time investors, featuring JONATHAN HOLLOW. This time, we ask: do investors really...
Robin Powell
Sep 7, 20232 min read
LTCM: Have we learned the lessons from its collapse?
"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." — Winston Churchill One of the most dramatic financial collapses in...
Robin Powell
Sep 6, 20232 min read
Which withdrawal strategy is best for your retirement savings?
Once they retire, people need to think carefully about how to make their retirement savings last. Taking too much out of your portfolio...
Robin Powell
Sep 4, 20232 min read
When markets tumble, what should you do?
In this video from our Getting Started series in which JONATHAN HOLLOW answers the common questions faced by first-time investors, we...
Robin Powell
Aug 31, 20231 min read
The economics of fund management explained
Robin writes: Asset management is a huge and extremely influential industry. It manages around $100 trillion in assets globally. Yet the...
Robin Powell
Aug 30, 20239 min read
Is it worth writing a book?
Robin writes: Every serious author will tell you that it's a huge commitment. But is it worth writing a book? Put it this way: to quote...
Robin Powell
Aug 29, 20231 min read
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