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Passive investing: what is it and how does it work?

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

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

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

Vanguard LifeStrategy funds review

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

How do accumulation funds work?

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

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

Once more the contrast between my daily diet of media-amplified fear and the damage done to our Slow & Steady passive portfolio surprises me. The portfolio is down just 3.5% since its peak last quarter. Essentially, we’re back where we were six months ago.  That’s despite the arrow-headed threats of stagflation, economic crisis, and a [...]

InvestEngine review

Does InvestEngine’s rock bottom fees mean it’s a miserable experience? Well, DOES IT?

Some of the finest minds in finance profoundly disagree about what return we can expect from our investments in the decades ahead, so err on the side of caution.

Why it’s risky to assume retirement spending declines as you age.

Does spending actually drop in retirement? Well, does it?

Free trading sounds ace but what’s the catch?

TA comes out of the water closest in this no-holes barred FIRE update.