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Dear John
Liontrust's John Husselbee's arguments in support of balanced funds are lame
Peter Elston
Feb 10, 20235 min read
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Setting A Bad Example
The effort to improve financial literacy in this country itself needs to be improved
Peter Elston
Feb 3, 20237 min read
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What Makes A Good Investor?
Grey is the new gold! There will be as many opinions about what makes a good investor as there are investors. Here's mine.
Peter Elston
Feb 1, 20235 min read
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Taking The Fear Out Of Maths
Improving maths standards will involve addressing the very real problem of maths anxiety
Peter Elston
Jan 27, 20234 min read
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Auntie! No!
The PM should start with the BBC when it comes to improving maths standards
Peter Elston
Jan 19, 20233 min read
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Do Not Let Your Comfortable Retirement Slip Away
Now is the time for a truly bold asset allocation
Peter Elston
Jan 6, 20236 min read
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Vanguard Doubles Down
The passive fund behemoth refuses to consider possibility that inflation will remain high
Peter Elston
Dec 2, 20228 min read
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Citywire: Wealth Managers May Need A Complete Rethink
My latest piece, published in Citywire, takes aim at balanced and risk-rated funds
Peter Elston
Oct 20, 20221 min read
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OK, But What Do The Patterns Actually Mean?
Patterns in financial markets relate to human behaviour, the business cycle, and longer inflation cycles
Peter Elston
Aug 26, 20224 min read
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Randomness And The Galton Board
For those who know what the normal/Gaussian distribution looks like but are not quite sure what it is
Peter Elston
Aug 25, 20224 min read
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A Statistical Appraisal Of Bond And Equity Behaviour
Bonds and equities exhibit fundamentally different patterns
Peter Elston
Aug 22, 20226 min read
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Where Are We In The Cycle?
A reminder about what empirical research tells us about business cycle phases and asset class returns
Peter Elston
Aug 3, 20223 min read
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Blurred Lines or No Lines?
Retail investors cannot be adequately protected until the fundamental similarity between investing and gambling is recognised
Peter Elston
Jul 14, 20224 min read
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Do Trends Exist?
It's not about cycles and trends, but pattern and randomness
Peter Elston
Jun 21, 20224 min read
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It's Time to Start Thinking in Real Terms
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...
Peter Elston
May 25, 20222 min read
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Tools of the Trade
In this post I set out a classification scheme for publicly available investment funds. It is hoped this can provide those readers who ...
Peter Elston
May 1, 20224 min read
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Growing Pains
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.
Peter Elston
Feb 1, 20223 min read
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When the Fun Stops...
How can young people be helped to reach this epiphany sooner?
Peter Elston
Oct 1, 20213 min read
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Where's My Cycle?
An update on where I think we are in the business cycle with respect to growth, inflation and markets


Correlation or causation?
Data is too often presented in an unfair, unclear and misleading way


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