How much of your portfolio should be in stocks? It's one of investing's most important questions — and the standard answer is costing the average investor the equivalent of 2% of their lifetime consumption. Yale economists have finally built something better, and it fits in a spreadsheet.
City of London skyscrapers including the Gherkin — the financial district reshaped by Big Bang in 1986, after which stock picking became a structurally losing game as research shows only 3.1 per cent of UK stocks generated all the market's real wealth over 50 years
Sunday Times columnist Ian Cowie's Apple ten-bagger makes a great story, but is it evidence that stock picking works? His own readers want benchmark comparisons — and the data is firmly on their side.
Robin Powell
Feb 24 min read
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