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How the Vanguard Target Retirement Funds take the work out of investing.

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Updated model portfolios to help you nut out your asset allocation strategy

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Our model portfolio notches up its worst year ever. Oh goody.

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This is what a historic bond meltdown looks like

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What can you do to improve the 60/40 portfolio? We have an answer. But it’s long and you won’t like it.

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Is the 60/40 portfolio dying? No, but it is feeling peaky.

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Our model passive portfolio enjoys a market melt-up.

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Our model passive portfolio emerges from the rubble of 2020 thanks to a hard hat made of QE.

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Our model portfolio soars once again and we scratch around looking for the cloud in the silver lining.

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The world’s decided not to go into meltdown after all. Our model passive portfolio jumps for joy.

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Our model passive portfolio reaches its 5th birthday. Time for cake, presents, party hats and stats.

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Our passive portfolio presses on deeper into the financial forest, ignoring the branches of overvaluation that seem to thicken around it.

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The market gently wafts our passive portfolio up, like an eagle on a thermal. The only thing to worry about is whether to cut our costs again.

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Japan down! Europe up! Meanwhile our model passive portfolio of index funds gently bobs about.

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What we can learn from the passive portfolio that Warren Buffet will bequeath his wife.

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Our model passive portfolio forces us to take one of the toughest decisions in investing: Rebalancing.

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Our little portfolio dozes off while the markets are about as action-packed as a US Government office during shutdown.

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ETF-only portfolios

Can an ETF only portfolio lower your costs?

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9 lazy portfolios for UK investors

Nine classic passive investing portfolios, conveniently populated with low price trackers for UK investors.

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Because I practice the art of portfolio insouciance, I missed the exact moment our Slow and Steady demo portfolio hit its peak in May.

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The market’s on fire and we’re dancing like chimps on heat around our model passive portfolio.

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Our model passive portfolio ends the year in triumph but we must still sell most of the funds.

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The Monevator passive portfolio blooms while everyone forgets about Europe for a while.

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Our model passive portfolio takes its chances once again against Mr Market.

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Our model passive portfolio continues its journey tossed on fortune’s fickle waves. This quarter we’re up as the European crisis abates.

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Monevator’s passive investing model portfolio is one-year old. See how our picks have fared in a tumultuous year.

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Our model passive portfolio gets caught up in the global equities blood-letting – there’s no hiding place.

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The first results are in for The Slow and Steady portfolio: a working example of a passive investing strategy.

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A model passive portfolio that can help investors to formulate their own index investing strategies.

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How to build a diversified passive investors portfolio that avoids costly trading fees.

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