Results for 'larry swedroe'
#SFTW: Shopping lists are fine for groceries, not for stocks
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Shopping Jim Cramer has one of the most famous faces on US television. A former hedge fund manager and best-selling author, he’s now a full-time celebrity who imparts his stock-picking expertise to anyone who will listen. And they do. The CNBC presenter is fast approaching a million followers on Twitter — many […]
#SFTW: The (reversion to the) mean machine
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Machine. Sir Francis Galton loved upsetting people. The Church of England didn’t take kindly to his statistical analysis of the power of prayer (he wasn’t a big fan); nor were women too impressed with his beauty map of Britain, which graded them on a scale from attractive to repulsive depending on […]
#SFTW: Godfrey-gate special!
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Godfrey. It will doubtless barely register on the Richter scale for most investors, but this has been a seismic week for the UK fund industry. First, two of the country’s biggest asset managers, Schroders and M&G, announced they were leaving the Investment Association, the industry trade body. Then, apparently fearful that […]
Something for the weekend
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND It was meant to symbolise the renaissance of Birmingham, but less than two years after it opened, our iconic new library is in dire financial straits. Basically, the City Council is skint. As a result of cutbacks which saw 100 staff made redundant, the library is only open 40 […]
Something for the weekend
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND One of the biggest challenges I face as an advocate of evidence-based investing is helping people to visualise just how much more they’re paying to invest in actively managed funds. Well, thanks to author Lars Kroijer, I now have a very striking image with which to shock investors out of […]
Something for the weekend
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Please excuse a slightly abbreviated version of SFTW this week.. I’m off to that temple of football Villa Park, where I fear that Manchester United are about to puncture the bubble of pre-season positivity that’s been growing in recent weeks over Birmingham B6. Something weekend. (Have you ever stopped […]
Three reasons why indexing works and continues to grow
Why index? Simply put, because indexing works. The alternative — active investing — may work, but the overwhelming probability is that it won’t and you would have been better off not taking the chance. A new paper, entitled Shooting the Messenger, by CRAIG LAZZARA and ANU GANTI from S&P Dow Jones Indices is […]
No one said it was going to be easy
Ken Fisher doesn’t mince his words. Personally, I’ve not been able to take him seriously since his extraordinary diatribe in the FT in October 2014 in which he described proponents of evidence-based investing as “deliverers of drivel.. communists at heart, (who) disbelieve in markets and will surely rot in hell”. It’s easy to see why […]
