Week 01
By ROBIN POWELL
INVESTING
Five new year’s resolutions for investors (Joe Wiggins)
Stockpickers need to prove their worth [Paywall] (Financial Times)
A deep dive into the folly of forecasting (Morgan Housel)
Five lessons we can learn from “the Witch of Wall Street” (Karen Wallace)
Professional investors are prone to behavioural biases too (Larry Swedroe)
A review of the decade in markets (Ben Carlson)
PERSONAL FINANCE
Nine money rules to take with you into 2020 (Lesley Gregory)
Some smart money goals and how to achieve them (Trent Hamm)
One group in particular is especially at risk of poverty in retirement (Brean Horne)
How young people’s finance changed in the past decade (Iona Bain)
THE FUND INDUSTRY
The shift from active to passive in the UK is gathering pace (Andrew Ashwood)
Ending gender inequality and harassment needs to be a priority (Sallie Krawcheck)
Dimensional announces fee reductions for US investors (Lisa Shidler)
THE ADVICE PROFESSION
What makes an adviser worth hiring? (Joshua Brown)
Blair DuQuesnay on creating a better gender balance in financial advice (Jane Wollman Rusoff)
How adviser brand archetypes can guide your marketing strategy (Eric Lee)
What obstacles do advisers face when marketing themselves? (Elizabeth Brigham)
Financial advisers look at the reality behind HBO drama ‘Succession’ (Daren Fonda)
Five predictions for the UK advice profession in 2020 (Ben Goss)
CONTENT MARKETING
How might content marketing change in 2020? (Lizzy Hillier)
How to produce video content that works on Facebook (Torrey Tayenaka)
An important trait shared by great marketers (Mark Schaefer)
Five misunderstandings that get in the way of good marketing (Kim Moutsos)
SUSTAINABILITY
Is hydrogen the key to cleaner natural gas usage? (Roger Harrabin)
What should Big Oil be doing in the face of an ongoing climate crisis? (Peter C. Frumhoff, Myles Allen & Kathy Mulvey)
More and more people will stop eating meat in 2020, data suggests (Andrew Griffin)
Clothes swapping set to become a sustainable trend in the new year (Rebecca Smithers)
WELLBEING
Can your phone really help you to keep fit? (Alex Hern & Coco Khan)
Medical breakthroughs from the past year (James Gallagher)
Six tips for emotional wellbeing in the new year (Emily Vaughn)
What are the six basic components of good judgement? (Andrew Likierman)
CALLING UK FINANCIAL ADVISERS
I’m presenting a workshop for advisers who want to learn more about sustainable investing and aligning client’s investments more closely with their personal values. The event is called The Values-Based Adviser, and it’s being held in Birmingham on Thursday 23rd April 2020. It costs £25 per adviser. Click here if you would like to come.
Robin is a journalist and campaigner for positive change in global investing. He runs Regis Media, a niche provider of content marketing for financial advice firms with an evidence-based investment philosophy. He also works as a consultant to other disruptive firms in the investing sector.
