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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.
Robin Powell
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Your wealth manager is not your financial planner
New FCA figures show that fewer than one in three wealth management firms also offer financial advice. That is not a scandal, and nobody has been mis-sold anything. But it does mean a great many people are paying for a well-run portfolio while assuming they are also getting a plan. The two are not the same thing, and it is the plan that answers the question most investors actually care about: can I stop work when I want to?
Robin Powell
Sep 146 min read
When is enough enough? The real purpose of financial planning
Wealth can buy security, freedom and choice. What it cannot do is address the purpose of financial planning: telling you when to stop. New behavioural research commissioned by Y TREE finds that the most driven wealthy people report both the highest life satisfaction and the highest anxiety, a reminder that knowing what money is for may matter as much as growing it.
Robin Powell
Jul 219 min read
The best investing book for UK readers in 2026 just got better
The second edition of the award-winning How to Fund the Life You Want is published today. Most personal finance books are designed to be read. This one was designed to be used. Robin Powell explains why the best investing book for UK readers in 2026 doesn't just explain investing – it asks the reader to do something about it, with a free workbook, six rules and a foreword from the Financial Times' Consumer Editor Claer Barrett.
Robin Powell
May 147 min read
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