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If you ever had an ambition to be a stock market forecaster , a quick look back at some of the prognostications made in early 2020 may...

By JOACHIM KLEMENT Note: This post is the result of a conversation I had with  Preston McSwain . We found it so interesting that we...

By ALBERTO ALLEGRUCCI   For the first time, the  SPIVA Europe Mid-Year 2020 Scorecard introduced risk-adjusted performance evaluations...

The power of passive investing is that it gives you cheap and efficient access to the market. It does this by tracking the performance...

By LARRY SWEDROE Of an estimated universe of more than 310,000 public non-profit organisations (NPOs), about 35,000 have endowment funds,...

Here at The Evidence-Based Investor, we love reading letters from top City fund managers, and this is one of our favourites. It was...

It’s now half a century since the American writer Alvin Toffler released the best-seller Future Shock , about what happens to societies...

Whether it’s Brexit, Trump or whether or not to eat meat, we live in an age of strongly held opinions. We decide to identify with a...

There are some obvious reasons for investors to use index funds. The first is their low cost. The only thing that you can control when...

By LESLEY GREGORY   The retail sector is having a tough time and one response has been to try to attract buyers with special sales and...

The problem with climate change, says ROBIN POWELL, is not that we aren’t aware of the facts. The people with the power to act on it —...

Pick up any investment magazine, and the impression given is that investors should be looking to buy great companies. It might sound...

We often hear that money can’t buy happiness. But is it actually true? There is, in fact, research suggesting that experiences, time...

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY In Ernest Hemingway’s classic novella , a fisherman who had gone three months without catching anything finally lands...

By SAM INSTONE We all want more time Visualising time An example: Michael Time with your loved ones 1) Have no regrets 2) Remember time...

Why do investors place so much faith in "star" fund managers? As JOE WIGGINS explains, it could be partly down to a phenomenon...

There can't be many investors who haven't wondered at some point, "If only I had a crystal ball!" Think about it. Imagine you had...

By LESLEY GREGORY With the gold price hitting record highs, it may be tempting to take part in a new gold rush by turning your old or...

We’ve written in the past about the value of having a very brief financial plan. And when we say brief, we mean a plan that can fit on a...

The British fund manager Terry Smith celebrates a key milestone this week; it’s ten years since since he launched his flagship fund...