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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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Patient investing is hard
By LARRY SWEDROE Patient investing is the ability to endure long periods of underperformance — adhering to your well-thought-out plan in...
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Jul 6, 20215 min read
Jason Zweig: Stock market games in schools are harmful
JASON ZWEIG was a guest on the Morningstar podcast The Long View the other day, and, not surprisingly, the episode is well worth listing...
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Jul 5, 20216 min read
More pearls of wisdom from Buffett and Munger
Whenever Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger impart their wisdom on investing, business or life in general, it's well worth listening. And...
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Jul 3, 20212 min read
How to think differently about diversification
By LARRY SWEDROE In his December 23, 2011, article, Taking a Chance on the Larry Portfolio , New York Times columnist Ron Lieber...
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Jul 2, 202114 min read
Factors in focus: Value (1/3)
Robin writes: Welcome to a new three-part series of videos on factor investing. It was produced by my colleagues at Regis Media for our...
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Jul 1, 20215 min read
Finding the total cost of investing is almost impossible
Five things investors need to know 2. FEES AND CHARGES ARE OPAQUE LOUISE COOPER is a straight-talking journalist who specialises in...
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Jun 30, 20215 min read
Fund boards are crying out for independent directors
Robin writes: I'm pleased to announce that I'm going to be writing a regular column for the True and Fair Campaign . Founded in 2012, the...
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Jun 29, 20212 min read
The pension time bomb: how worried should we be?
Much has been written about the pension time bomb. Demographic changes, we've been warned, will mean more and more people needing to draw...
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Jun 28, 20213 min read
The impact of recency bias on equity markets
By LARRY SWEDROE The basic hypothesis of behavioural finance is that, due to behavioural biases, markets make persistent mistakes in...
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Jun 25, 20215 min read
Has size contributed to value’s recent revival?
Both value stocks and smaller companies have outperformed so far this year. But since value-oriented companies are typically smaller than...
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Jun 24, 20212 min read
Louise Cooper: five things investors need to know
Louise Cooper: Five things investors need to know 1. COST IS VERY IMPORTANT LOUISE COOPER is a straight-talking journalist, based in...
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Jun 23, 20213 min read
Ken French on the danger of false positives
Coronavirus has taught us about the danger of false positives and false negatives — wrongly assuming that we either have, or don't have,...
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Jun 23, 20214 min read
The 60/40 portfolio ain't broke
If it ain't broke, the old adage goes, don't fix it. And for MARK NORTHWAY, that certainly applies to the classic 60/40 portfolio. With...
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Jun 21, 20213 min read
Passive growth makes it harder to generate alpha
You might have thought, intuitively, that the growth of passive investing would make it easier for active managers to generate alpha. But...
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Jun 18, 20214 min read
A mindful way to pay your bills
By ROBIN POWELL I started a mindfulness practice during lockdown. I’m not (at least not yet) a meditation evangelist. For a start,...
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Jun 17, 20211 min read
What does history tell us about the value rally?
By CRAIG LAZZARA from S&P Dow Jones Indices U.S. equity markets seemed to undergo a fundamental change of direction in September of last...
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Jun 16, 20212 min read
Should you buy stocks with very negative recent returns?
By LARRY SWEDROE There is a large body of research, including such studies as Do Investors Overpay for Stocks with Lottery-like Payoffs?...
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Jun 15, 20213 min read
Can you measure your financial wellbeing?
How can you tell if you are financially healthy?
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Jun 13, 20213 min read
Should investors be worried about US government debt?
As the chief research officer of Buckingham Wealth Partners, I’ve been getting lots of calls from investors concerned about the rapid...
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Jun 11, 20213 min read
Thousands of Woodford investors will never see justice
Last week marked the second anniversary of the suspension of Woodford Equity Income, the flagship fund of the now disgraced asset manager...
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Jun 8, 20214 min read
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