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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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Investors aren't given the fund information they need
Welcome to the second in a series of articles by SUNIL CHADDA on unit-holder inequality in funds. Last time he explained how retail...
Robin Powell
Mar 22, 20223 min read
2021 was third-worst year on record for US active managers
Our friends at S&P Dow Jones Indices have just released their latest annual SPIVA scorecard for US active managers. And guess what? It...
Robin Powell
Mar 21, 20223 min read
Fund marketing and the science of magic
By ROBIN POWELL Everyone loves a magic trick. Watching talent shows growing up, I could take or leave the singers and comedians, but it...
Robin Powell
Mar 18, 20223 min read
Factors DO work, but don't time them
By LARRY SWEDROE Academic research has found that valuation metrics (for example, the earnings yield (E/P) or the CAPE 10 earnings...
Robin Powell
Mar 18, 20225 min read
Market forecasts: why we just can't stop ourselves
Human beings love to make predictions. Who’ll win the Premier League? What about the next general election? How will the UK fare at this...
Robin Powell
Mar 16, 20227 min read
Explaining value and momentum with macroeconomic risks
By LARRY SWEDROE Value and momentum are two of the most powerful explanatory factors in finance. Research on both has been published for...
Robin Powell
Mar 16, 20224 min read
Retail investors pay up to 60 times more than institutions
One of the more regrettable aspects of the UK asset management industry is the unequal treatment of retail and institutional investors....
Robin Powell
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Marina Ovsyannikova, we salute you
By ROBIN POWELL War brings out the worst in us, but also the best. Every night, on our television screens, we see what happens when evil...
Robin Powell
Mar 15, 20223 min read
Lessons for investors in mental strength from a cricketing icon
Robin writes: There are valuable lessons investors can learn from top sportspeople. None of them has anything to do with technical...
Robin Powell
Mar 12, 20223 min read
Should investors fear a yield curve inversion?
By LARRY SWEDROE It’s not as if investors did not have enough to worry about with Russia invading Ukraine, but with inflation being much...
Robin Powell
Mar 11, 20229 min read
Ten ways to handle headline anxiety
“ Doom-scrolling ” is becoming a habit right now. No sooner had we learnt to live with the pandemic than the long-dormant inflation dragon...
Robin Powell
Mar 10, 20223 min read
Money lessons from the Ukraine crisis
It's almost two weeks since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine — the largest conventional military attack in Europe since World War II....
Robin Powell
Mar 9, 20225 min read
More evidence that specialised ETFs are best avoided
There has been a large increase in recent years in the number of specialised ETFs that offer exposure to different investment themes. But...
Robin Powell
Mar 8, 20226 min read
Mutual funds: The less you understand, the more you pay
Research shows a link between how complex fund material is and higher fees charged to investors.
Robin Powell
Mar 7, 20223 min read
Introducing Index Funds the Musical
So, the countdown is on for the 94th Academy Awards: the Oscars ceremony is just three weeks away. Here at TEBI we’ve finally overcome...
Robin Powell
Mar 6, 20222 min read
Disposition effect hampers active managers, study shows
By LARRY SWEDROE In their 1985 study, The Disposition to Sell Winners Too Early and Ride Losers Too Long: Theory and Evidence , Hersh...
Robin Powell
Mar 4, 20224 min read
Fama: It’s Putin who’s irrational, not the markets
By ROBIN POWELL As most investors know, the markets hate uncertainty, and the world seems more uncertain now than it ever has done in...
Robin Powell
Mar 3, 20223 min read
Why the S in ESG is no longer silent
The momentum behind environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing has become seemingly unstoppable in recent years, a fact...
Robin Powell
Mar 2, 20225 min read
Should investors fear rising public debt?
Public debt is on the increase around the world, and, with large deficits projected for the foreseeable future, it's likely that...
Robin Powell
Mar 1, 20227 min read
Alternative investments have been useless since 2007
Alternative investments are suddenly all the rage, with both institutional and retail investors increasing their exposure. Alternative...
Robin Powell
Feb 28, 20225 min read
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