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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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Why do smart people do dumb things?
By LARRY SWEDROE If you are like most people you probably have wondered why you have done some really foolish things. Perhaps you have...
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May 4, 202110 min read
What can you do about bubbles and crashes?
There have always been economic booms and busts and, sooner or later, stock markets are bound to crash. The key question for investors...
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May 3, 20217 min read
Australian investors deserve far better
Robin writes: I originally wrote this article for the Suitable Advice Institute and would like to acknowledge the input into it from...
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May 2, 20218 min read
Be prepared for the next black swan
By LARRY SWEDROE Over the course of the first two decades of the 21st century, equity markets faced three “black swan” events: the...
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Apr 30, 20215 min read
Why even Buffett has been buffeted by the index
Warren Buffett has consistently advised investors to use low-cost index funds in recent years — and he speaks from bitter experience....
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Apr 29, 20212 min read
How to manage your cashflow properly
Every business owner knows about the importance of managing their cashflow. Get it wrong, and even the most promising business can...
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Apr 28, 20217 min read
Are we in a bubble?
We're only just starting to recover from the effects of a pandemic that closed much of the global economy. Huge job loses are predicted...
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Apr 26, 20217 min read
How useful are risk tolerance questionnaires?
By LARRY SWEDROE From an investment standpoint, the role of an adviser is to construct a variety of portfolios with differing risk and...
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Apr 24, 20214 min read
The case for looking beyond the S&P 500
Many investors confine their US exposure to the S&P 500. In doing so, they may be missing out on the long-term outperformance of smaller...
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Apr 23, 20212 min read
Is ESG a factor like size or value?
Most TEBI readers will be familiar with the concept of investment risk factors — i.e. characteristics of a stock or bond that make that...
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Apr 22, 20214 min read
Endowment performance has sharply deteriorated since 2008
By LARRY SWEDROE The outstanding performance of the Yale endowment fund, managed by legendary investor David Swensen, led many endowments...
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Apr 21, 20216 min read
Young investors are more cautious than you think
A generation of super-savers The survey’s authors attributed this trend to this generation growing up in the wake of the global financial...
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Apr 20, 20213 min read
Could reading literature make you better with money?
By JACON SCHROEDER To make better choices and build wealth, have you tried investing time with the works of Shakespeare? Our...
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Apr 19, 20215 min read
How does investor sentiment affect stock and fund returns?
By LARRY SWEDROE Investor sentiment refers to the general mood investors exhibit toward a particular market or asset. Sentiment can be an...
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Apr 16, 20218 min read
David Booth: five timeless investment lessons I've learned
It's 40 years ago this week that Dimensional Fund Advisors was founded. Here are five timeless investment lessons that one of its...
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Apr 15, 20216 min read
Woodford investors' misery mounts as writedowns continue
The Neil Woodford scandal has been a huge learning experience for investors. And one of the more painful lessons learned is that when...
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Apr 13, 20215 min read
If we're serious about our health, why do we neglect financial wellbeing?
Taking control of your money should not be daunting.
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Apr 12, 20213 min read
Older investors handled last year's volatility worst
By LARRY SWEDROE We have met the enemy and he is us. Pogo comic strip by Walt Kelly, 1970 The year 2020 was a stressful one for investors...
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Apr 9, 20215 min read
Five reasons for millennials to be cheerful
Robin writes: Yesterday we ran an extract from Own It! , a new book by IONA BAIN about money and investing, specifically aimed at those...
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Apr 8, 20215 min read
How boomers mugged millennials off
I worry for young people from a financial perspective. They're being pressurised by advertisers, social media and their peers into doing...
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Apr 7, 202111 min read
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