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Weekend reading: Buffett and Munger strut their stuff yet again 24 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
Good reads from around the Web. I know some people get fed up with the endless praise heaped upon billionaire octogenarian Warren Buffett. And there’s clearly a bit of a contradiction in a blog that...
How to build a dividend portfolio 22 Aug 2013 | 01:20 pm
As if identifying promising dividend shares wasn’t tricky enough, knowing how to properly assemble the shares in a portfolio can be an even greater challenge. How do we assemble dividend shares in su...
Passive index investing feels wrong 20 Aug 2013 | 01:03 pm
Many people find it hard to accept an index tracking fund is the best way for them to invest their money. And I have every sympathy for them. It’s easy to forget just how counter-intuitive passive i...
Weekend reading: How many Mensa members does it take to beat the market? 17 Aug 2013 | 02:01 pm
Good reads from around the Web. I learned an amusing bit of trivia about high I.Q. investors from Monevator fave Larry Swedroe this week. In an article for CBS Moneywatch on the woeful performance o...
Why your house is an investment, and an asset, too 16 Aug 2013 | 12:23 am
Some of you who read the headline above are wondering what revelation Monevator will bring you next. Magic beans aren’t legal tender? Money doesn’t grow on trees? Of course your house is an investme...
Weekend reading: More murky ETFs are on the way 10 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
Good reads from around the Web. It’s a truth universally acknowledged that anyone in possession – or pursuit – of a fortune will run up against a financial services industry determined to make life m...
A history of UK inflation 7 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm
I’m pleased to introduce another post by Pete Comley, author of Monkey With A Pin and a much-debated Monevator article last year extolling the virtues of cash. This time it’s inflation that Pete has i...
ETFs and the peculiar effects of withholding tax 6 Aug 2013 | 12:46 pm
Razor-brained Monevator reader Chris recently emailed to ask us whether some investors are better off holding foreign-listed Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) in place of our native species, on the grounds...
Weekend reading: Return and volatility data for the US lazy portfolios 3 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
Good reads from around the Web. After we updated the lazy portfolios for UK investors the other day, some readers asked good questions about how the different strategies had done in terms of returns ...
Holding my nose and buying in Europe 2 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
A few canny value investors like Warren Buffett have beaten the market for decades by buying cheap shares. More recently, academics noticed what they were up to and identified the value premium – the...
