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Weekend reading: Five things you need to know about active funds

Good reads from around the Web.

You know that most active funds fail to beat the market. I know that most active funds fail to beat the market.

And all our fondly farewell-ed readers who got the message, bought a one-shot passive indexing product instead, and then went off to read about 20 Stars Who You Won’t Believe Commune With The Dead Using A Ouija Board knew it, too.

But plenty of people don’t, so I guess we’ll keep repeating it. It’s a bit late to change lanes!

So here’s the same message in a new video featuring Professor David Blake from Cass Business School, courtesy of The Evidence-Based Investor [1]:

Lots more below – enjoy!

From the blogs

Making good use of the things that we find…

Passive investing

Active investing

Other articles

Product of the week: Bond yields have been rising, and we’ve probably passed the nadir for interest rates. HSBC [17] just pulled what was celebrated as the cheapest-ever mortgage – the bank’s 0.99% two-year fixed rate deal – reports ThisIsMoney [18].

Mainstream media money

Some links are Google search results – in PC/desktop view these enable you to click through to read the piece without being a paid subscriber of that site.1 [19]

Passive investing

Active investing

A word from a broker

Property and house prices

Other stuff worth reading

Book of the week: Every week I turn down dozens of would-be lucrative requests to insert paid links or run sponsored posts on this website. Here’s a better way to get yourself featured on Monevator – try citing us in your classy book. I recently discovered veteran science writer Robert Matthews showed such acumen and good taste within the pages of Chancing It [43], his deep dive into the laws of probability. The book came out earlier this year and boasts strong reviews.

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  1. Note some articles can only be accessed through the search results if you’re using PC/desktop view (from mobile/tablet view they bring up the firewall/subscription page). To circumvent, switch your mobile browser to use the desktop view. On Chrome for Android: press the menu button followed by “Request Desktop Site”. [ [48]]