Good reads from around the Web.
A late start for me today, after a too-late night at the sort of London wine bar that I fantasized about and at the same time derided when I left the provinces 20+ years ago, and where a friend actually said “Fashion is dead” with a straight face as if it were the 1980s.
The shame. Get thee to a Wetherspoons!
Enjoy the intermittently sunny bank holiday.
From the blogs
Making good use of the things that we find…
Passive investing
- Will the FTSE 100 ever go above 7,000? [Video] – YouTube/TMF [1]
Active investing
- Apple’s long and twisted share price journey – Musing on Markets [2]
- Is AstraZeneca better value than GSK? – UK Value Investor [3]
- The snag with the UK equity income fund reshuffle – Value Perspective [4]
- Stick to your knitting as an investor – Clear Eyes Investing [5]
- You can’t kiss all the pretty girls/boys – Investing Caffeine [6]
Other articles
- Investing the mortgage [US data but excellent read] – Retirement Cafe [7]
- Only you can get out of your debts – Mister Squirrel [8]
- Beating the stock market with DIY insulation – Mr Money Mustache [9]
- What can we do about inequality in the UK? – Simple Living in Suffolk [10]
Product of the week: Britain’s second-oldest bank, Raphaels [11], is paying 2.05% on a 15-month duration fixed-rate bond, reports The Telegraph [12].
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 [13]
Passive investing
- The illogic of active trading – New York Times [14]
- It’s hard to know who’ll outperform – Swedroe/ETF.com [15]
- “Scale and skill”: Why it’s so hard to beat the market – Wharton [16]
- If only “passive investing” was passive – Forbes [17]
Active investing
- French and Fama abandon ‘value’, embrace profitability – Morningstar [18]
- Neil Woodford spurns precedent, says his best is to come – Telegraph [19]
- How CEOs are rigging their high pay – Bloomberg [20]
- It’s harvest time for private equity – Fortune [21] [Via Abnormal Returns [22]]
Other stuff worth reading
- Selftrade is rowing back on its intrusive questions – ThisIsMoney [23]
- Labour to take on private landlords [Search result] – FT [24]
- Comparing Dubai, Australia, and the US for ex-pats – Telegraph [25]
- London penthouse sold for £140m – Guardian [26]
- Who’s your daddy? It matters in America – Housel/Fool.com [27]
- Seven ways to cut an hour off your workday – Fast Company [28]
- A primer on the Thomas Picketty inequality book – Economist [29] [But is Thomas Picketty’s maths correct? – George Cooper [30]]
Book of the week: Several of my brainy friends are currently obsessed with Capital in the Twenty-First Century [31]
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- Reader Ken notes that: “FT 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”.” [↩ [36]]