For Beginners

Liontrust's John Husselbee's arguments in support of balanced funds are lame

Improving maths standards will involve addressing the very real problem of maths anxiety

The passive fund behemoth refuses to consider possibility that inflation will remain high

For those who know what the normal/Gaussian distribution looks like but are not quite sure what it is

Retail investors cannot be adequately protected until the fundamental similarity between investing and gambling is recognised

It's not about cycles and trends, but pattern and randomness

I remember feeling extremely honoured when I was invited four years ago to write this column. It seemed to me to be a great opportunity.

It always saddens me when I hear about small investors having lost, perhaps irretrievably, a sizeable portion of their net worth, in...

The effort to improve financial literacy in this country itself needs to be improved

The PM should start with the BBC when it comes to improving maths standards

My latest piece, published in Citywire, takes aim at balanced and risk-rated funds

Bonds and equities exhibit fundamentally different patterns

The Magic of Fractional Reserve Banking

There are two effects of high inflation. The first is one that we have in recent weeks and months become brutally aware of, namely its...

How can young people be helped to reach this epiphany sooner?

A few years ago, I attended a talk by a professional sports bettor. The aim of the talk was to explain the differencebetween professional...

Grey is the new gold! There will be as many opinions about what makes a good investor as there are investors. Here's mine.

Now is the time for a truly bold asset allocation

Patterns in financial markets relate to human behaviour, the business cycle, and longer inflation cycles

A reminder about what empirical research tells us about business cycle phases and asset class returns

In the interests of complete openness...

In this post I set out a classification scheme for publicly available investment funds. It is hoped this can provide those readers who ...

Closed-ended funds – investment trusts – are wonderful structures. So, too, are open-ended funds – OEICs, short for open-ended investment...

Investment strategist James Montier now works with famed fund manager Jeremy Grantham at GMO, but in a past life wrote a fabulous paper...