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

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Perhaps the most important question of all is: “Does the 2013 third edition contain new insights that may change a passive investor’s strategy?” My hair does a Van de Graaf every time I see the -74% real loss of the 1900s or the -73% shaft on the graph that is the 1940s. I can’t tell you what’s changed in the latest edition as I’ve not read it previously. Although I can tell you it it has commendably been updated to mention Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome’s Tour de France victories. So take the time to think about who you are and what you’re trying to achieve. If you don’t know yet, then the Markowitz portfolio is a great place to start.

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Tim read Zoology at Oxford, and after a four-year stint in Hong Kong with Standard Chartered, undertook an MBA. He then joined Chase Asset Management, which is now part of JP Morgan Asset Management, working in various roles in London, Hong Kong, and New York for almost a decade before setting up Albion in 2001. P.S. If you’re fixing your financial life for the first time then I’d pair Smarter Investing with How to Fund the Life You Want. The latter offers a bigger picture view of the UK’s personal finance universe. The former is more your investment 101 course. Note, we’ve used a money market fund in place of cash, but high-interest savings accounts will do just as nicely. Last week we took a first look at what seems to be the most popular book with UK active traders – The Naked Trader.

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crucially, has genuinely internalised the fact that equity markets are volatile in the short term but much less so over a 10+ years horizon. Yes a must read. Although it didn’t fully make sense to me when I first read it as I was very new to the whole investing concept. I suspect that one of the shorter more accessible US books might actually be a better starting place to get people inspired.

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Using vanguard life strategy is I feel the best (for me) approach to bonds. I aim to very slowly build exposure to the 20% equity version, which if you delve deeper only has approx 15% exposure to longer dated gilts (over 10 years), although its seems longer duration index linkers are more prevalent (75% of this asset class and total approx 15%). It sounds wonderful but the downside is you need a very large portfolio to generate enough income, even if you choose high-yielding dividend funds – as we’ve done for this load-out. Finally if you’re a Monevator veteran for whom these investment portfolio examples have been more a familiar ramble than wide-eyed adventure, then why not forward this article to a friend or family member who needs to get started? Phil — For various reasons, we sometimes update and repost old articles rather than post new articles. Now in its fourth edition, Smarter Investing remains as on-point as ever for anyone looking to successfully navigate the investing swamp.I’m in the same position, and I have extracted 4 years’ worth of spending in cash and gilts. So far so good. But what is the plan (your plan) to keep the 5 years of cash buffer rolling? Selling a year’s worth of spend of equities each year?

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That’s because the assets enjoy low correlations – they tend to behave quite differently from each other, so can cover for each other’s weaknesses – and also because the portfolio allocates an uncommonly small percentage to equities.NB: A negative weighted average yield to maturity figure, therefore, results in a nil bond allocation. practical ways of being an efficient (“good”) investor, including guidance on products and advisers the Ready for Anything portfolio is pretty similar to mine. My fiddling… err… considered research has led me from long-ish term bonds to intermediate US Treasuries to 20% in GIST/GISG in November ’21, just before inflation made it’s unwelcome re-appearance. With 15% Gold (for tail events), that protected me well in the ’22 tantrum. In nominal terms, at least. After your series on equities, I’m considering moving half of GISG/GIST to commodity funds as my state and small DB pension start paying out. But currently I need the bonds to maybe spend down in RE. That would leave me 25% in Gold and commodities. I have Tim Hale’s book and whilst I found it very informative,it was a ‘chewy’ first read on investing. Swensen’s model investment portfolio is much better diversified than Markowitz’s but that doesn’t always work to your advantage. UK equities, emerging markets, and property have endured a tough 15 years or so versus the developed world.

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