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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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Always confident but often wrong
By JOACHIM KLEMENT Note: This post is the result of a conversation I had with Preston McSwain . We found it so interesting that we...
Robin Powell
Nov 17, 20203 min read
Are there any excuses left?
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Robin Powell
Nov 16, 20203 min read
What exactly is an index?
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Robin Powell
Nov 16, 20204 min read
Cost a huge factor in non-profit endowment performance
By LARRY SWEDROE Of an estimated universe of more than 310,000 public non-profit organisations (NPOs), about 35,000 have endowment funds,...
Robin Powell
Nov 13, 20203 min read
Dear valued client
Here at The Evidence-Based Investor, we love reading letters from top City fund managers, and this is one of our favourites. It was...
Robin Powell
Nov 13, 20203 min read
The new future shock
It’s now half a century since the American writer Alvin Toffler released the best-seller Future Shock , about what happens to societies...
Robin Powell
Nov 12, 20203 min read
Strong opinions loosely held
Whether it’s Brexit, Trump or whether or not to eat meat, we live in an age of strongly held opinions. We decide to identify with a...
Robin Powell
Nov 11, 20204 min read
When a bargain isn’t a bargain
By LESLEY GREGORY The retail sector is having a tough time and one response has been to try to attract buyers with special sales and...
Robin Powell
Nov 9, 20203 min read
Changing investing requires laser focus
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Robin Powell
Nov 8, 20203 min read
Great companies often make poor investments
Pick up any investment magazine, and the impression given is that investors should be looking to buy great companies. It might sound...
Robin Powell
Nov 6, 20209 min read
Do you really need to buy the latest iPhone?
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Robin Powell
Nov 5, 20205 min read
Plenty of fish in the sea
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Robin Powell
Nov 3, 20202 min read
Investors and sports fans love a hero
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Robin Powell
Nov 2, 20204 min read
Even a crystal ball won't help
There can't be many investors who haven't wondered at some point, "If only I had a crystal ball!" Think about it. Imagine you had...
Robin Powell
Oct 30, 202012 min read
Cash for gold? Tread carefully
By LESLEY GREGORY With the gold price hitting record highs, it may be tempting to take part in a new gold rush by turning your old or...
Robin Powell
Oct 29, 20203 min read
Do you have a one-page plan?
We’ve written in the past about the value of having a very brief financial plan. And when we say brief, we mean a plan that can fit on a...
Robin Powell
Oct 28, 20203 min read
Should you invest with Terry Smith?
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Robin Powell
Oct 27, 20203 min read
The danger of trading from home
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Robin Powell
Oct 26, 20203 min read
How hard is it to find the next Amazon?
By JOACHIM KLEMENT I recently wrote about the research of Henrik Bessembinder, who investigates the extreme outliers in the US stock...
Robin Powell
Oct 25, 20202 min read
A higher intelligence
By LARRY SWEDROE For many years, a group of higher beings had monitored the advancement of society on Earth through sound waves that...
Robin Powell
Oct 23, 20204 min read
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