Smarter Investing: Simpler Decisions for Better Results (Financial Times Series)

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The extent to which you should take risks depends very much on the time horizon of your investment plan. However, it is important to be aware of the influence your emotions have on your investment performance. Commodities exposure in the Smarter Portfolios was 0% for Portfolio 1, 2% for Portfolio 2 and so on up to 10% for Portfolio 6.

In other words, he does a great job of trying to stop investors anchoring themselves to a notional number peddled by a calculator, brochure, or book. Today we’ll start work on the book which seems to be the most popular with passive investors – Smarter Investing by Tim Hale.

He loves working with Albion’s clients and takes immense pleasure in seeing them develop and grow, in the knowledge that Albion has played a small part in their success.

I’m a bit late to this but is anyone aware of any practical books about decumulation strategies with a UK focus? Last week we took a first look at what seems to be the most popular book with UK active traders – The Naked Trader. We have strong working relationship with the major systematic fund management firms and draw heavily on leading, security level data sources that feed into our proprietary suite of tools – smarteranalytics™– that power our investment insight and outputs. Of course, nothing is certain and Hale’s underscoring of the investing vagaries is one of the great favours he does DIY investors.a. that occurred over the worst 30 years of UK bond investing history or the 47 years it took to recover the real purchasing power of your bonds lost during the bear market of the 1940s to 1970s. And investors are so desperate for linkers that available yields are generally negative in the secondary market.

They are smart because they invest, but at the same time unwise by doing so with an expensive broker. At the same time, loss-making positions are kept open, because we are afraid to take a permanent loss. Ben's relationship with physics is now more casual as his passion for investing has taken over, and was delighted to earn the CFA® charter in 2021. big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly.

Two points – William Bernsteins piece above gives his rationale for staying away from long-bonds (and this was before the current environment of QE). We like to build strong, practical working relationships with our clients and are always available to help out on any of the myriad of investing issues that inevitably arise from time to time.