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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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Front-running — a hidden risk in hedge funds
The poor performance of hedge funds has been well documented. What investors are less aware of is the risk of investing in a hedge fund
Robin Powell
Oct 19, 20216 min read
Jack Brennan: It's a great time to be an investor
JACK BRENNAN has spent more than 40 years in the fund management industry. He is Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor of Vanguard, one of...
Robin Powell
Oct 18, 20217 min read
Global warming puts heat on banks
While global warming is already affecting weather and climate extremes in every region of the globe, it is also increasingly seen by...
Robin Powell
Oct 17, 20214 min read
Quality, the flip side of value
By LARRY SWEDROE The existence of a quality premium in stocks that has been persistent over time, pervasive around the globe and robust...
Robin Powell
Oct 15, 20216 min read
Ten excuses for not investing
Here at TEBI, we often remind investors how important it is to keep their costs low and to focus on the long term. But perhaps we ought...
Robin Powell
Oct 14, 20216 min read
Clarity in investing is not the same as certainty
There is more to being a successful investor than the binary question of whether we are out-performing or under-performing a benchmark.
Robin Powell
Oct 13, 20213 min read
Value stocks remain very "cheap" compared to growth
By LARRY SWEDROE As the chief research officer of Buckingham Wealth Partners, I have been getting lots of questions from investors...
Robin Powell
Oct 12, 20216 min read
Relative returns vs absolute performance
Some active fund managers tend to downplay the importance of benchmarks. What I'm focused on, they might say, is delivering an absolute...
Robin Powell
Oct 11, 20212 min read
How can you hedge against inflation?
Inflation makes the front page of many of today's newspaper headlines in the UK — and not just the FT. Why? Because the Bank of England’s...
Robin Powell
Oct 8, 20215 min read
The biggest crash in world history
Robin writes: According to today’s Daily Express, we’re heading for the “biggest crash in world history” . The warning comes from Robert...
Robin Powell
Oct 7, 20215 min read
Gene Fama on an unsung benefit of indexing
Nobel Laureate Gene Fama has given a rare interview, in which he once again spells out the case for using index funds. We all know that...
Robin Powell
Oct 6, 20211 min read
Jack Brennan: How to get to Boca Raton
OK, it might not be a comfortable retirement in Palm Beach County, but whatever your ultimate investment objective might be, the question...
Robin Powell
Oct 4, 20216 min read
What to do if you're worried about inflation
Many investors are worried about inflation. How long will it carry on rising for? And what sort of impact will it have on returns? As...
Robin Powell
Oct 1, 20214 min read
What if the last 40 years had turned out differently?
Any proper analysis of an investment strategy must be based on historical market data. But the historical data that we observe were not...
Robin Powell
Sep 30, 20213 min read
Invest Your Way to Financial Freedom
Robin writes: Some of you may already have picked this up on social media, but I’m pleased to announce that , the book I’ve co-written...
Robin Powell
Sep 29, 20214 min read
Are enhanced index funds genuinely enhanced?
It's hard to keep track of all the different product names the fund industry comes up with. And here's another name to conjure with —...
Robin Powell
Sep 28, 20216 min read
How advisers help to set priorities
If we all could achieve all the things we want in life and when we want to achieve them, none of us would need advice. The reality,...
Robin Powell
Sep 27, 20213 min read
The control delusion
It shouldn’t really be a surprise by now, but when it comes to investment we humans are nowhere near the cool and calculating machines...
Robin Powell
Sep 26, 20213 min read
Hedge funds: the end of an era?
By LARRY SWEDROE 25 years ago, there were approximately $300 billion of assets invested in hedge funds. Today, that figure has increased...
Robin Powell
Sep 24, 20217 min read
China's crackdown on capitalism: how worried should we be?
What is going on in China? Billionaire tech magnates being pushed around, private education companies having their wings clipped, and...
Robin Powell
Sep 23, 20214 min read
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