Good reads from around the Web.
One thing led to another this week, and so Weekend Reading had a rare hiatus from its usual Saturday slot.
(But let’s face it – even the most curmudgeonly of us were surely enjoying the fact they weren’t being snowed on in London, in Spring, as happened very briefly to me last week).
Here’s a Sunday heatwave edition of our weekend links.
Enjoy the rest of the good weather. You know that come October we’ll realise this five-day run of sun was actually our summer…
From the blogs
Making good use of the things that we find…
Passive investing
- Advisers shouldn’t seek alpha – The Evidence Based Investor [1]
- Who wins the quantitative battle? [Geeky, transcript] – Jack Bogle [2]
- Financial gaslighting (and the reality of hedge funds) – Above The Market [3]
Active investing
- Why does indexing shrink alpha? – Pragmatic Capitalism [4]
- Lessons learned from value trap Tesco – UK Value Investor [5]
- Longest downtrend in crude oil history is over – Pension Partners [6]
- The Graham and Doddsville letter: Spring Edition – Valuewalk [7]
- Flat pancakes & dividends – Investing Caffeine [8]
Other articles
- On washing powder: The alignment of interests – The Escape Artist [9]
- How much do you earn, really? – Under the Money Tree [10]
- Golden years – SexHealthMoneyDeath [11]
- Exploring peer-to-peer real estate – Mr Money Mustache [12]
Product of the week: Got a teenager? The Telegraph runs through [13] the five cheapest cars for teens to insure, and then reveals what they actually buy. Kids, eh?
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 [14]
Passive investing
- Ritholz: Nobody knows anything – Bloomberg [15]
- Fund fees predict future success or failure – Morningstar [16]
Active investing
- Lee: Mutual friend put me on trail of new investment [Search result] – FT [17]
- Hedge funds haven’t delivered on their promise – Economist [18]
- How stock picks from the Ira Sohn conference are fairing – Bloomberg [19]
- Active investors are nervous right now, which is good – Market Watch [20]
- Housel: The conflicts in active investing – The Motley Fool (US) [21]
A word from a broker
- Free ETF buying until the end of May – TD Direct [22]
- Britain is not prepared for a Brexit recession – Hargreaves Lansdown [23]
Other stuff worth reading
- How could the new first-time buyer boom go wrong? – Telegraph [24]
- Making money in the gig economy – ThisIsMoney [25]
- What if you chose experiences over security? – New York Times [26]
- Investing in vintage watches – ThisIsMoney [27]
- Retiring after 65 may help people live longer – Wall Street Journal [28]
- The surprising fall in the cost of the UK’s food – The Guardian [29]
- Is the Tesla 3 the electric car that will change everything? – The Guardian [30]
- Solar power is (literally) contagious – Vox [31]
Book of the week: I noticed How to Own the World [32]
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- 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”. [↩ [37]]