Good reads from around the Web.
I read at least 100 investing articles every week, probably twice as many company news stories and 30-40 RNS updates from companies reporting to the stock market.
Like every week, some of the better ones are collated below.
But let’s face it, you’re not going to enjoy any of them as much as a cartoon from Dilbert creator Scott Adams!
Adams has begun a new investing advice [1] series:
[2]Note to newbies: This cartoon is *ironic*.
He has actually written quite a bit over the years about investing – I’ve previously [3] featured one of his old cartoons – and all his work [4]
Adams advocates index funds and passive investing, obviously.
If only he could teach us how to be creative geniuses, too.
From the blogs
Making good use of the things that we find…
Passive investing
- A positive passive investing behaviour gap – A Wealth of Common Sense [5]
- Why we don’t make good decisions – The Irrelevant Investor [6]
Active investing
- Consumer defensives: A must own sector – Total Return Investor [7]
- Keep your stock picking simple – Dividend Mantra [8]
- The aging of the tech sector – Musings on Markets [9]
- Where are the activist investors? – Oddball Stocks [10]
- Bunzl’s metronomic growth – Richard Beddard [11]
- How to respond to a dividend cut – UK Value Investor [12]
Other articles
- The biology of stock market booms and busts – The Psy-Fi Blog [13]
- Physical labour is good for the soul – The Escape Artist [14]
- Fear of a frothy market – Simple Living in Suffolk [15]
- Four paradoxes of the consumer society – FIREstarter [16]
- The golden age of the introverted entrepreneur – Medium [17]
Product of the week: Clydesdale Bank [18] and Yorkshire Bank [19] have increased their two-year cash ISA rates to 2.1%, which makes them Best Buys according to ThisIsMoney [20].
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 [21]
Passive investing
- Don’t make the trading gods laugh… – Bloomberg [22]
- …particularly with your feeble forecasts – Motley Fool US [23]
- Roth: Getting real about fund fees – AARP [24]
- Active investors: Yes, the world is out to get you – Bloomberg [25]
Active investing
- Generating returns from renewables [Search result] – FT [26]
- Property crowding-funding is a great idea – in theory [Search result] – FT [27]
- Housel: The case for leaving your portfolio alone – Motley Fool US [28]
- 10 AIM shares for dividend growth – Interactive Investor [29]
- Get ready for some terrible returns from equities – Business Insider [30]
- Gold is the worst investment in history – Daily Finance [31]
Other stuff worth reading
- Case studies as ‘pension freedom day’ approaches – Guardian [32]
- Putting a pension into a fossil museum [Or similar business!] – Telegraph [33]
- What about investing a pension into buy-to-let property? – ThisIsMoney [34]
- How living frugally changed one man’s life – Daily Finance [35]
- The state of UK housing in six charts – Guardian [36]
Book of the week: UK property investor Rob Dix kindly sent me a PDF of his first book a few years ago, which I never got around to reviewing. I found it an approachable and useful read, albeit informed by a focus on an asset class that has almost only ever gone up over the period Dix has been involved! His latest book, 100 Property Investment Tips [37], was published this month.
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- Note some 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”. [↩ [42]]