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The latest on the Woodford Equity Income scandal
It’s been more than a year and-a-half since the Woodford Equity Income fund, run by the former “star” fund manager Neil Woodford, was...
Victory belongs to the patient
By LARRY SWEDROE "The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient." - Warren Buffett ◊ While having...
Caution — forecasters at work
Stock market forecasters have been in demand this year, and they're going to be especially busy in the next few weeks. We're reaching...
Five ways to develop a millionaire mindset
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Stocks are risky no matter how long the horizon
In his best-selling book, , Jeremy Siegel declared that stocks are only risky if your investment horizon is short. But, says LARRY...
Making the most of working from home
By LESLEY GREGORY Clothing Food Transport Tax claims Tidy sum LESLEY GREGORY is an experienced personal finance and consumer journalist....
2020 and the danger of extrapolation
The contrasts between the first ten months of 2020 and the month of November were vivid. Consider: — At the end of October, the...
Why most Robinhood traders earn lousy returns
By LARRY SWEDROE Behavioural finance professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean have done extensive research on the performance and habits...
Practising what you preach
By NICK MAGGIULLI There’s a bit of an issue I have noticed among personal finance experts. Many of them have become wealthy by selling...
StockTok — a backwards step for financial education
Some call it StockTok, others FinTok. But whatever you choose to call it, the rise of Generation’s Z’s version of #FinTwit is a cause for...
Another sign that market efficiency is increasing?
By JOACHIM KLEMENT Much to the chagrin of value and contrarian investors everywhere, markets in the Western world have increasingly...
Should investors be optimists or pessimists?
To be a successful long-term investor you need the right balance of both pessimism and optimism.
The only way to be a buy-and-hold investor
In early 2000, Cathy called Brenda to invite her to an investment seminar sponsored by her CPA. She told Brenda the seminar was part of a...
Justice for Woodford Investors
The Neil Woodford saga is a stain on the investing industry. Launched in June 2014, the Woodford Equity Income fund was the most heavily...
Why active will continue to underperform
Twice a year, every year, the SPIVA (S&P Indices Versus Active Funds) scorecards across the world show the same long-term results: most...
Why cap-weighting dominates
There are all sorts of ways to construct an index. Equal weighting has its fans. Alternatively you can weight by factors — size, value...
Five ways to boost your financial resilience
When a crisis comes, panic usually isn’t far behind. Many of us are now living with the threat (or the reality) of redundancy or a drop...
The patience of a saint
By ROBIN POWELL This article was originally written for the Suitable Advice Institute . “Successful investing takes time, discipline and...
For every buyer there must be a seller
. — Girolamo Cardano, 16th-century physician, mathematician and quintessential Renaissance man ◊ Jay and Haden were having lunch one day,...
Getting comfortable with your enough
Welcome to the final part of our series Rethinking Money with CARL RICHARDS. Carl is an expert in human behaviour — specifically in...
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