Good reads from around the Web.
There’s nothing like a heatwave to focus the mind on getting away from a hot laptop and into a cooling breeze…
Straight into the links today!
Have a great weekend.
From the blogs
Making good use of the things that we find…
Passive investing
- To tilt or not to tilt your portfolio – Rick Ferri [1]
- How stock lending reduces tracker fees – Bogleheads Blog [2] [Via Mike [3]]
- Use Vanguard’s LifeStrategy funds to dodge emotions – Jean Chatzky [4]
Active investing
- 10 fast-growing UK dividend growth stocks – UK Value Investor [5]
- The thrill of the chase – Investing Caffeine [6]
- Beware the risks of high-yield bonds – The Value Perspective [7]
- Mental models from a co-founder of Pixar – Brooklyn Investor [8]
Other articles
- Is Mr Money Mustache ruining your marriage? – Mr Money Mustache [9]
- Saving more is more effective than earning more – Dividend Mantra [10]
- We live like kings – Simple Living in Suffolk [11]
Reflective UK blogger special
- Advice to my former self – Under the Money Tree [12]
- Thoughts on 30 years spent building a pension – DIY Investor (UK) [13]
- Checking in on my financial freedom plan – Retirement Investing Today [14]
- H1 2014 [active idiosyncratic] portfolio review – Wexboy [15]
Product of the week: I’ve been a bit slow to mention that Zopa [16] is offering a rate promise, whereby savers who lock their money away for five years will get an average return of 5.2% while those who take the three year option will get an average of 4%. Remember your money is now theoretically protected due to its Safeguard [17] fund, too – although personally I still only allocate a portion of my funds towards peer-to-peer, just in case. More details on the Zopa website [16].
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 [18]
Passive investing
- Debunking Jeremy Grantham’s concerns – Swedroe/ETF.com [19]
Active investing
- I prefer to keep things simple – Housel/Motley Fool [20]
- Active funds that have gone to the dogs – Guardian [21]
- Redwood: Investing against the grain in Europe – FT [22] [Search result]
- Making sense of the mining malaise – Interactive Investor [23]
Other stuff worth reading
- Is being rich worth it? – BBC [24]
- The dos and don’ts of pitching for business investment – BBC [25]
- Property rents increasing at twice the speed of earnings… – Guardian [26]
- …probably explains first-time buyer numbers near-2007 high – Bloomberg [27]
Book of the week: Passive investing author Mike Piper makes his living writing investing books, but the Wall Street Journal still teased out his favourites by his rivals. Mike recommends If You Can [28]
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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”.” [↩ [37]]