The Investor, Author at Monevator

Weekend reading: Active investors need to love what they do

on April 11, 2015

Good reads from around the Web. When my co-blogger The Accumulator and I debated why I am an active investor despite believing most people can expect to be better off by investing passively, I explained it was partly because I love it. The big benefit of enjoying what you do is that it can be [...]

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Weekend reading: ETFs are playing to the active crowd

on April 4, 2015

The ETF business is booming, but arguably for all the wrong reasons. Plus the rest of the week’s good reads.

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Assume every investment can fail you

Updated on April 2, 2015

All investments can fail. Some risks are vanishingly remote, but some people win the lottery twice so why take chances?

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15 year table of UK asset class returns

on March 31, 2015

This table of UK asset class returns over the past 15 years brings to mind my love life over the same time period – incredible highs followed by miserable lows!

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