Investing

Passive vs active investing? Passive wins by a landslide. Here’s why.

The SPIVA study provides critical evidence in the case against active management.

A year to forget for everyone except resellers of secondhand Aeron office chairs…

Building your own passive portfolio? Here’s how to decide whether to use ETFs or index funds at every stage.

How long does it take to recover your losses from a bear market? Longer than we’d like

Think your portfolio of unlisted companies is offseting the declines in your stock market investments? Think again!

Inflation fears roundhouse every holding in the Slow & Steady portfolio

How to deal with the savagery of a wild bear market

Here’s another naughty broker cost that wants slashing

An instant diversified portfolio that requires less maintenance than an Easter Island statue.

Accumulation fund investors generally have no idea how much they’ve earned in dividends. But discovering this hidden flow of cash is easy…

The Accumulator celebrates his one-year FIRE anniversary

A quick confusion-buster on the difference between income units and accumulation units and which you should use.

Exploring social care options that are available to all.

This is part six of a series on planning and paying for later life social care costs. We’ve previously: Explored why your care needs likely won’t be funded by the state. Discussed the means test, and which of your assets are counted or disregarded. Highlighted the mechanics of the key social care funding thresholds that [...]