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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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Short Term Capital Mismanagement

29/07/202229/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Academia, Active Investing, Complexity, History, Leverage, Return

The LTCM was experiment was a disaster. What can we learn from it? I outline 4 lessons learned from revisiting LTCM.

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I Solved the Passive Investing Debate

16/05/202204/07/2022 Haydn Martin 0 Comments Active Investing, Non-Financial Factors, Passive Investing, Return

Passive investing is still hotly debated. It’s largely a god strategy – it’s quick and easy and it works…if certain conditions hold true. But it has problems.

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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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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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