27 Oct The weekend starts here...interesting snippets from around the web
Bubbles, true talent, accepting underperformance, learning to live with maybes and who IS buried on the moon? The best of what I read this week....
23 Oct Costs matter - make sure you know exactly what you’re paying to invest
No one would think of buying a car – or making any other large purchase - without knowing what they were going to pay. The same applies when investing in funds, there are a number of different ‘layers’ of costs which you need to...
13 Oct The weekend starts here - interesting snippets from around the web
A Library of Mistakes, realising the difference between good advice and effective advice, Nobel Prize winners and How to care for your Introvert, these all caught my eye this week....
09 Oct The art (and importance) of rebalancing
World stockmarkets have had a good run in recent years. If you haven't thought about rebalancing your portfolio, now might be a good time to think about doing so....
06 Oct The weekend starts here - interesting snippets from around the web
Black Monday, Northern Rock and earthworms on Mars may be strange bedfellows but all put in an appearance this week. Enjoy!...
29 Sep The weekend starts here...... interesting snippets from around the web
There has been a huge amount of interesting content around this week, which has made it very difficult to narrow down to a few snippets. I hope you enjoy my choices. Fat jockeys – or how to make the economy grow [4 min read] If you’ve ever...
25 Sep Wealth & Financial Planning for women - collaboration not condescension
Désolé monsieur, but women tend to live longer than men...
18 Sep Do passive investors care about corporate governance?
“No passive investor cares much about governance of a particular company.” Todd Henderson and Dorothy Shapiro Lund, Wall Street Journal, 22nd June 2017 The above quotation comes from an article published in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), access to which is only available to subscribers, although...
11 Sep Non, je ne regrette rien - understanding investor behaviour
“The investor’s chief problem – and even his worst enemy – is likely to be himself.” - Benjamin Graham Until very recently I had never heard of Jonah Lehrer. Then, in the space of 48 hours, I read about him in Jon Ronson’s book, ‘So You’ve Been...
06 Sep The cult of the fund manager
I have read two articles in the last few days which triggered a trip down Memory Lane. The first was this Morningstar article, which looks at the history of the ‘cult’ fund manager over the last 30 years. Thirty years ago, in June 1987, I joined Hargreaves...