Financial bullshit: you may be more susceptible than you think
Episode 2 of The Investing Show is now online. Produced by and co-presented by Robin Powell and Abraham…
Overconfidence is a pension manager’s worst enemy
By LARRY SWEDROE The first chapter in my book Investment Mistakes Even Smart People Make and How…
The case for combining dividend strategies
By CRAIG LAZZARA Throughout this year’s market turmoil, dividend strategies have been among the most reliable sources…
Passive investors, active owners
Passive investors can’t be active owners? Nonsense. As ROBIN POWELL explains, a growing number of financial technology firms…
The Shiller CAPE 10: how to use it, not abuse it
The Shiller cyclically adjusted (for inflation) price-to-earnings ratio, referred to as the CAPE 10 because it averages the…
Three things you need to know after recent market falls
Robin writes: Stock markets respond to news, and sometimes bad news comes thick and fast. That’s just what’s…
How susceptible are you to financial bullshit?
One of the biggest leading indicators of people’s tendency to be swayed by bad investment advice is…
Help Britons budget! A modest proposal for the Chancellor
In his last article, Jonathan Hollow reviewed progress banks have made in offering budgeting tools that their…
Get Britain budgeting! A modest proposal for the Chancellor
The cost-of-living crisis has made it more important than ever to budget carefully. In his last article, Jonathan…
How profitable is retail options trading?
Academic research, including the 2015 study Does Realized Skewness Predict the Cross-Section of Equity Returns and the…
A ten-point plan for the bear market
After a long period of financial markets being treated largely as background noise by the media, news…
Is this a new dawn for financial advice in Australia?
Amid market volatility and an accelerating transfer of intergenerational wealth, the need for sound financial advice has arguably…
Can investors improve returns by reducing ESG risks?
By LARRY SWEDROE The increased popularity of ESG investing has been accompanied by a rise in research…
Time horizon — the difference between us and the pros
Robin writes: As TEBI readers know, a fundamental problem (arguably the fundamental problem) with the investing industry is…
A tale of two small-cap universes
Small-cap stocks essentially come in two varieties — small growth and small value. So which type of small-cap…
The resurgence of value has accelerated
For keen students of the financial markets, the resurgence of value has been one of the biggest stories…
Vanguard active or Vanguard passive: which is best?
Arguably the most reliable predictor of future fund performance is cost: the less you pay, the higher your…
Is fund management meant to be sexy?
By PATRICK CAIRNS According to the most recent Forbes 400 list which lists the richest people in…
What insider trades (and non-trades) tell us about future returns
When you hear the phrase “insider trading’, you might automatically think of illegally exploiting non-public information for…
Biotech returns: 30 years of disappointment
The biotechnology sector was billed as the next big thing in the early 1990s, and it remains one…
Trading driven by attention leads to poor returns
By LARRY SWEDROE The field of behavioural finance has produced a large body of evidence on the…
How to spot a financial fraudster
Australians have been riveted by the story of a “financial adviser” who defrauded her clients, friends and family…
Two words: Neil Woodford
Robin writes: I love this tweet. Not my original one, but the reply from @FroglandMark, aka Crafty Git.…
The takeover effect: what it is and how to benefit
By LARRY SWEDROE Research on the cross-section of stock returns has found that takeovers provide explanatory power.…
Is ESG investing a panacea or Chinese Communist conspiracy?
By ROBIN POWELL After years of extraordinary growth, the industry that’s built up around environmental, social and…
Generating alpha contains the seeds of its own destruction
Generating alpha is what active fund managers are paid to do. The problem is, when a manager succeeds,…
Why use a financial planning firm?
By ROBIN POWELL Over recent weeks we’ve been featuring How to Invest, a new documentary series produced…
Should our banks help us to budget?
As times get tighter, keeping to a budget is becoming important for more and more people. JONATHAN HOLLOW…
Index investing: Is replication or sampling best?
By LARRY SWEDROE Investors who choose to invest in the stock market through index funds can do so…
Report highlights blind spots of active fund investors
If you’re investing in a managed fund, how do you know whether you are receiving value for…