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The staggering way The City overcharges investors in active funds
You may have already seen the first part of the upcoming 10-part documentary on passive investing by Sensible Investing, as I featured it in Saturday’s Weekend Reading. I think the rest of this series...
View ArticleHow high costs are hidden by the fund management industry
The pension and fund management industry tries to get us to focus on performance – not costs – when it comes to investing. This is pretty ironic, given that most fund managers actually under-perform a...
View ArticleThe poor performance record of actively managed funds
Most Monevator readers know high costs are the major reason to avoid active funds, and that low costs are the biggest draw for index trackers. However paying high fees to managers – as well as all the...
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The academic big guns behind your humble index tracker fund
Many people have been won over to index funds and passive investing because index trackers are cheap, and it’s not worth paying more for active managers who overwhelmingly fail to beat the market. But...
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Modern Portfolio Theory and your portfolio
You probably came across the idea of diversification fairly early in your passive investing adventures. Diversification is an age-old concept, after all. According to The Bible, King Solomon was...
View ArticleCut out the expensive middlemen with cheap index funds
Whether you’re swayed by the academic theories against active investing – or just the abundant proof showing most fund managers demonstrably fail to beat the market – the case for index investing is...
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Decision time: Market cap trackers, factor bets – or is Smart Beta better?
Some critics of passive investing say there’s “no such thing” as truly passive investing. They point out that even an investor who only uses index tracker funds has to decide: How to split their money...
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What if you want to invest in active funds?
The videos we’ve been featuring every week on Monevator from Sensible Investing TV have done a sterling job of reminding us why passive investing via index funds is the best bet for most people. Index...
View ArticleCan you commit to your investing strategy for the long-term?
Investing should be all about the long-term. Yet almost everyone who grabs our attention when it comes to investing – media pundits, asset managers, brokers – have an incentive to keep us guessing...
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Is active fund management an industrial sized rip-off?
The long con is the most dangerous kind of confidence trick. It’s not nice to lose a tenner to a street hustler or even £500 to a door-to-door swindler, but the long con – the swindle that runs for...
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