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The less you look (or the best managed volatility strategy in the world)
If you wish to lower the volatility of your portfolio, stop looking at it so often.— Rick Ferri, CFA (@Rick_Ferri) October 27, 2018 This tweet by Rick Ferri is counter-intuitive. If you want to lower volatility, look at your portfolio less often? Rick...
Robo-advice and the art of growing customers for the competition
‘We have been growing customers for General Motors’ observed Lewis Crusoe, a vice-president of the Ford Motor Company in the 1950s. Mr Crusoe was talking about a well-known problem at the company; low-income Ford owners were trading up to a medium-priced...
Will the FCA’s inducement rules kill off on-platform tools?
Should advisers use free – but often inferior – tools offered by platforms and product providers, or should they pay for best-of-breed, independent tools available in the marketplace? This debate has raged among advisers for a long time. The FCA might have...
Cobras, Unintended Consequences & Multi-Asset Funds
Today, we publish our Multi-Asset Fund Guide 2018 titled Dysfunctional Families. This guide is an in-depth analysis of 91 fund families consisting of 402 individual funds in which a £148bn of client’s money is invested. The story of the cobra in India during British...
Living on planet GARS: Lessons in how (NOT) to invest
A recent article in the Guardian is the latest indictment of the Standard Life GARS fund. The fund has underperformed virtually all imaginable benchmarks over the last three and five years. 3-Year Cumulative Return 5-Year Cumulative Return Is it just me or does anyone...
Lessons from 118 years of asset class returns data
The annual Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook (2018) should be on your reading list. Compiled by Professors Elroy Dimson (Cambridge), Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton (London Business School), this epic publication provides incredible insight into asset...
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