#SFTW: There’s probably never been a better time to be an investor

Posted by Robin Powell on December 11, 2015

SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND

Investor.

Michael Batnick from Ritholtz Wealth Management writes one of the most popular investing blogs for Millennials, The Irrelevant Investor. In the second and final part of our interview, Michael explains his belief that investors have probably never had it so good than they do today.

Read Part 2 of the interview here

Missed the first part of our interview with Michael? Here it is:

How I learned to invest the right way — an interview with Michael Batnick (Part 1)

 

What else you may have missed..

Why is your adviser tweeting about QE and interest rates?

New funds are designed to sell, not to make you prosper

EBI & SRI — What if you want both?

It’s time to tell the closet indexers, See you in court

Just because it looks like skill doesn’t mean it is

 

What I’ve been reading..

Investing:

Busting the great investment myths (Alan Miller)

No strategy is going to work all the time, every time (James Osborne)

Can you really beat the market? Try this simulator and see (Betterment)

10 ways to wreck your portfolio (Investing Caffeine)

Excitement and expenses are the enemies of investors (AlphaGlider)

It’s pointless looking for patterns in yearly returns (Mark Hulbert)

What’s happened to the value premium? (Dougal Williams)

Are inverse ETFs a good way to reduce risk? (Michael Piper)

The Devil’s Financial Dictionary: An ABC for passive investors (Monevator)

 

The “industry”:

Jason Zweig on the fund industry’s big lie (Matthew Phillips)

The future is looking bleak for hedge funds (David Stevenson)

Organisational culture is highly underestimated in the investment industry (Ben Carlson)

New clients top concern for advisers in Australia (& almost everywhere) (Andrew Haslip)

 

 

Robin Powell

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.

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