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General finance advice
Data from S&P confirms that active funds underperform in bear markets
Performance comparisons
How the industry rewrites history
Modern Portfolio Theory Explained
Technology as a unique area of investing
More proof of the fallibility of stock picking
The Courage of Misguided Convictions
Using evidence based data to improve investment returns.
An EBIS report
Questioning the value of company research
Societe Generale report.
Proof that choosing the right assets is more important that choosing the right stocks
The only financial blog we know in the UK worth recommending is this on, The Psy-Fi blog
Proof that past performance is no guide to future returns
A report from the FSA.
Letter to the Financial Times demonstrating how difficult it is to choose active funds
Picking active funds is not easy.
Another demonstration of how hard it is to beat the market
from The Financial Analysts Journal.
The impact of fees on investment returns
An academic study that concludes:
"The report confirms our belief that it is simply not worth the risk of trying to select outstanding fund active managers to pick stocks when 99.4% of all managers either under perform, or at best equal, the market over longer terms."
Fundamental Tracker Investment Management Limited
It has the best guide to the performance of active fund managers.
Not as useful as it was and now comprimised by promotion of its own stock tipping service but there its message boards can be a good source of information for those with time on their hands.
Rob Davies' podcast on the Motley Fool website
An overvew of our investment approach.
Unrivalled financial news coverage
More detailed information about collective funds
Good coverage of news, financial and other
The best analysis of the full costs of collective funds
The definitive study of the long term returns from investing in the stockmarket
Good website to compare collective investments
Glossary - What all those words and phrases really mean
Financial
Times online glossary
Investorwords
The best guide to what is going on in the housing market and some great economic data as well.
Warren Buffets Letter to Shareholders
Lots of common sense about investing.
The fastest growing financial community in the UK.
A low cost platform used by intermediaries.
The great and the good of Wall Street have got together to build this company around the concept of basing portfolios on dividends.
Some clever people in California have spent a lot of time looking at the stock market and how it works. Some very interesting articles about dividends and indexing here.
Paper on the Philosophy of Fundamental Indexation
More Debate about the Merits of Fundamental Indexes
And Even More Debate about the Merits of Fundamental Indexes
This time from the New York Times.