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...
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....
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....
Black Monday, Northern Rock and earthworms on Mars may be strange bedfellows but all put in an appearance this week. Enjoy!...
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...
Désolé monsieur, but women tend to live longer than men...
“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...
“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...
This piece is one of the best things I’ve read in the last week – it just goes to show how easy it is for us to be totally unaware of someone else’s struggles [5 min read] I wish I had written this – it tells...
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...