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How to Be Comfortable

21/01/202321/01/2023 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Business, Equity, Forecast, Income, Passive Investing, Return, Wealth, Yield

Investing is a great way to generate passive income. But is it the best? And do we really need passive income at all?

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AI Will Fix Everything

08/01/202321/01/2023 Haydn Martin 0 Comments AI, Complexity, Long-term, Machine Learning, Robo-advisers, Statistical Inference, The Future

The hype around AI may have left you wondering if this magical technology will solve retail investing so you don’t have to worry about it. Well…

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Investing Is Over-rated

04/11/202204/01/2023 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Active Investing, Bonds, Cryptocurrency, Deduction, Diversification, Happiness, Induction, Inflation, Investing Problems, Long-term, Paranoid Optimist, Passive Investing, Property, Return, Shares, Statistical Inference

Investing is hard – most people know about the basic reasons for this. But they don’t know about the second-level problems that we discuss here.

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A Portfolio That Always Wins

30/01/202204/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Average, Diversification, Financial Planning, Long-term, Non-Financial Factors, Return

What if you could construct a portfolio that had only a 5% chance of decreasing in value in a given year. What might this look like?

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Now It’s All About You

18/01/202204/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments History

There has been a dramatic shift in the last 50 years of emphasis in personal finance and investing from institutions to the individual. Is this good or bad?

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Nothing Can Hedge Against Inflation

18/12/202104/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Cryptocurrency, Gold, History, Induction, Inflation, Oil, Property, Shares, Statistical Inference

Here we look at the most popular inflation hedges and their correlation with the general level of prices. We see that none of them work as inflation hedge.

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Passive Investing Is a Myth

29/10/202104/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Active Investing, FTSE 100, Government Bonds, Passive Investing, Shares

“Passive” investing is not really passive. You have to make many subjective choices no matter how supposedly passive your strategy is.

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What Are Retail Investors Buying?

04/05/202105/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Active Investing, Assets, Passive Investing, Pensions, Platforms, Real Estate, Responsible Investing, Saving

Investment platforms are becoming the dominant force in retail investing. Investors are using them to buy international equities.

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Investing Is Hard but That Can’t Stop You

24/04/202105/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments History, Investing Problems, Investment Platform

People are increasingly becoming interested in investing. The problem is that retail investing is probably impossible to “solve”.

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You Suck at Investing

21/03/202114/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Academia, Active Investing, Interactive Investor, Passive Investing, Return, Robinhood

In this post, I answer the question “How good are retail investors at investing?”

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