Recency bias – the scourge of investors
Unfortunately, as humans, we are poorly neurologically wired to be good investors. ...
Unfortunately, as humans, we are poorly neurologically wired to be good investors. ...
Given the battering which investors in some types of bonds have taken in the last few months, it’s understandable when the question arises as to whether they might be better to eschew such assets altogether and opt to invest solely in equities....
It is sometimes easy to forget that when markets rise and fall, we are looking at this through an aggregated, market-capitalisation weighted lens....
Jeremy Hunt’s March 2023 budget made some important changes to pensions, some of which were kept under wraps until the actual speech and only appeared afterwards in the ‘small print’....
The investment management industry loves its legends and there is none bigger than the nonagenarian ‘Oracle of Omaha’ Warren Buffett, CEO of the US-listed firm Berkshire Hathaway...
It may not have seemed like it, but the Budget on 15 March 2023 was the first in almost seventeen months....
What can we learn from the recent failure of Silicon Valley Bank to help us next time something like this happens?...
Each year, investors face a barrage of commentary and speculation from the financial press about which stock, sector or country is set to do well in the coming months....
When it comes to making assumptions about a distant future, caution is generally a good thing. However, there are situations in which being cautious can actually result in more risk....