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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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Robin Powell
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Cathie Wood and the front-of-mind effect
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Three steps to breaking the money shame spiral
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How funds change benchmarks to flatter their performance
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Value versus glamour stocks: a regime shift in the making?
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Hamish Douglass, the Aussie fund star who fell to earth
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