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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
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
Wealth management underperformance: the exposed secret that could cost you millions
Y TREE's analysis of 550 portfolios found that 84 per cent of wealth managers underperformed in 2025. Wealth management underperformance cost investors up to a third of their expected returns — and most don't even know it's happening.
Robin Powell
Apr 710 min read
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