“Of course, what they don™t tell you is, we launched 15 funds 5 years ago, 14 of them didn™t make any money, so we™re not opening them up. This is the only […]
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When choosing a fund to invest in, most people tend to focus on how a fund has performed in the past. The fact is that a fund™s past performance tells us very little about its likely […]
It™s during periods of market volatility that a good adviser will really earn their fees. For unadvised investors, the temptation to bail out when markets start falling sharply […]
Many people, including financial professionals, use the terms risk and volatility as if they were interchangeable. In fact they are two very different things. A video on the […]
Fees and charges are a key consideration when choosing a fund to invest in. Research by Morningstar has shown that it™s the most important predictor of a fund™s future returns. […]
Just because the Yale Model has a good track record, that doesn™t mean investors should try to copy it. A video on the Bloomsbury […]
Research into couples and their personal finances consistently shows that it still tends to be men who make the investment decisions. But women tend to have a different attitude […]
If skill exists and is identifiable, you would expect it to turn up in prior performance. What these reports show is, that over time, it is actually not the case. A video […]
Although there are times when it pays to be a perfectionist, aiming for the perfect investment portfolio is counter-productive. A video on the
We care much more naturally about what is definitely happening right here right now to me, than something that might happen in the future to our future selves, somewhere […]
Of all the behavioural biases people are prone to, one of the most prevalent is optimism bias. We typically assume that things are going to turn out better than they do, and we overestimate […]
