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How much passive investing is too much?
Warnings that index funds have broken the stock market all imply a threshold: a share of the market at which price discovery fails. Nobody making the argument names it. Owen Lamont, writing in the Financial Analysts Journal, argues that no such number exists short of complete passive ownership, and that what actually determines whether prices stay informative is who is left doing the trading. His case, the strongest peer-reviewed research against it, and what the performance
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Five ways to get better with money in 2023
With the start of a new year, you can now put the past behind you, writes JASON BUTLER. You can start again and have a sense of hope and...
Robin Powell
Feb 11, 20234 min read
UK investors have paid a price for ignoring America
It can't be said often enough that, for all investors, global diversification is critical. And yet, the world over, investors have an...
Robin Powell
Feb 8, 20232 min read
Paul Lewis: the financial industry is not your friend
Robin writes: Looking back, and knowing what I do now, I’m embarrassed at how naïve I used to be about the financial industry, and how...
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Feb 3, 20236 min read
UK investors are still too heavily concentrated in UK assets
UK investors have a world of opportunities at their fingertips. It has never been easier to gain exposure to share and bonds markets...
Robin Powell
Jan 30, 20232 min read
Study sheds light on cognitive dissonance in active management
What do active fund managers really think of active management? And do they invest their own money in actively managed funds? The...
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Jan 25, 20235 min read
Beware: even cash and bonds can land you in a fix
Now that interest rates have risen, fixed-rate bonds and bank deposits are looking attractive again. But investors shouldn’t...
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Jan 24, 20234 min read
Six reasons why the Japanese outlive us
By ROBIN POWELL The world's world's oldest person, a French nun named Lucile Randon , has died at the age of 118 at her nursing home in...
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Jan 19, 20232 min read
$1 trillion and counting — Jack Bogle's legacy to investors
Jack Bogle, one of the most influential figures in the global investment industry, died four years ago this week. He was the founder and...
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Jan 17, 20238 min read
Just 2% of large-cap core funds have beaten the S&P 500 since 1993
By TIM EDWARDS 30 years ago, Bill Clinton was getting ready for his inauguration as the 42nd U.S. president, the S&P 500 closed a...
Robin Powell
Jan 14, 20232 min read
Asset managers and their customers want different things
By ROBIN POWELL There are so many books on asset management. Far too many in fact. Almost all of them focus purely on investing, and...
Robin Powell
Jan 12, 20234 min read
Do historic bear markets tell us anything about this one?
2022 was a bad year for equity investors. At one stage the S&P 500 was down 25%. Since then we've seen a recovery of sorts, which begs...
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Jan 10, 20232 min read
Above average or below? How good at investing are you?
Human beings have an innate overconfidence bias that can interfere with our ability to make good decisions. It happens in investing all...
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Jan 7, 20233 min read
How to make the most of your Four Thousand Weeks
By ROBIN POWELL There’s nothing quite like the start of a new year to focus our minds on the passage of time. It’s an annual reminder...
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Jan 4, 20231 min read
Eight tips for finding a suitable adviser
Financial advisers have had a bad press in recent years, and I can understand why. But my firm belief is that having a good adviser to...
Robin Powell
Jan 4, 20235 min read
Five things that stop us becoming wealthy
There is no silver bullet or magic wand to becoming wealthy, and what works for one person might not work for another. But JASON BUTLER...
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Jan 2, 20232 min read
Young investors are smarter than you think
By ROBIN POWELL There is a perception that young people are pretty clueless when it comes to saving and investing. Instead of putting...
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Dec 29, 20224 min read
Investors, here's why you need a plan
As 2022 draws to a close, DAVID BOOTH, co-founder of Dimensional Fund Advisors, looks back at some of the key events that have shaped the...
Robin Powell
Dec 26, 20225 min read
Horizon risk: what is it, and how can it be mitigated?
Everyone should strive to be a long-term investor. But we also have different time horizons for different goals and need to be aware of...
Robin Powell
Dec 21, 20224 min read
Regulators don't understand financial advice
By ROBIN POWELL Financial advisers and consumers are on a steep learning curve. The advice profession is changing beyond all recognition. But can financial regulators keep up? It’s just not the very wealthy who need good financial advice; everyone does. The UK regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, should therefore be applauded for trying to give a wider cross-section of the population access to it. The problem is, it’s chosen a very strange way to go about it. The FCA r
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Dec 19, 20223 min read
Two silver linings to the market tumult of 2022
2022 will go down as one of the most challenging years for investors in recent memory. It wasn't just equities that suffered, but...
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Dec 16, 20223 min read
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