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Introducing our new portfolio review service for professionals
The vast majority of pensions funds, charities, endowments and other institutional portfolios have underperformed the market for decades. The way to stop the rot is to have an independent portfolio review, reduce fees and complexity, and increase diversification. From today, that’s precisely what TEBI is offering. As anyone who’s read The...
If you’re determined to use active funds, at least do this
I’m not a fan of actively managed funds. I would never say never use them, but the evidence is overwhelming and categorical that, almost invariably, your net returns will be bigger if you don’t. The average active funds investor must expect to...
Which of these three funds would you choose?
Imagine three funds. Over the last three years, Fund A has produced stellar returns, Fund B’s performance has been mediocre and Fund C has underperformed. Which fund are investors most likely to want to invest in? D’oh! Fund A. It’s a no-brainer....
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...
#SFTW: The evidence-based investing revolution has barely begun
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND Evidence-Based You’d expect me to say this, I know, but evidence-based investing has a BIG future. Why? Well, apart from the fact that it’s far superior to the alternative, it has until now, everywhere outside the United States, remained...
In which countries do fund managers charge the highest fees?
Last time we looked at how good (or more to the point, bad) fund managers are at beating their benchmarks in different countries around the world. For the five year-period ending December 2014, the overall picture was grim, although there were pockets of...
Which countries have the best (or least incompetent) fund managers?
Imagine a World Championship for fund managers. Which countries would come out on top?
