Posts tagged as performance

11 Mar 2010

ISA season in the press

It’s ISA shopping season in the press and the Investors Chronicle asked Stuart Fowler to contribute some growth tips. His top tip: avoid growth stories.

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22 Jan 2010

Is your manager doing a good job?

We use No Monkey Business portfolio examples and their actual returns to illustrate what information private clients need and how they should use it.

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28 Sep 2009

Anatomy of a bear

We describe our asset allocation changes and performance from December 2007 to August 2009. The returns themselves are quite impressive. How did this come about, if we knew we did not know what was going to happen in the short term?

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30 Aug 2009

The growth illusion

Is it not obvious that investing in higher growth countries will yield higher returns? Not at all. This is one of the traps investors regularly fall into. Saturday’s FT has a timely reminder.

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04 Feb 2009

How did we do in 2008?

Whose performance is it anyway? When clients’ portfolios are genuinely customised to personal goals whose terms of reference they have jointly planned and taken responsibility for, it is reasonable to answer questions about performance with a question of our own. Yet the question posed is also a matter of fact we ought to be able to answer. In this article we provide the answer together with some guidance as to what, if anything, it means.

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