Market returns through a century of recessions
Lessons from history This is an interactive article from Dimensional Fund Advisers. It shows how ...
Retirement villages – pros and cons
What you need to consider There are over 48,000 residents in over 450 retirement villages ...
Worried about the share market?
Why long-term investing is crucial Imagine it’s 25 years ago, 1997: J.K. Rowling just published ...
The average market return
Investors need to realise to get an average return that investment returns do fluctuate and ...
The value premium
The work of Fama & French showed the three key drivers of long term performance ...
Lyfords Quarterly Newsletter
Lyfords quarterly newsletter reviews key financial market events that have impacted portfolio returns. Each quarter ...
Property Price Expectations
Property has produced extraordinary investment returns for New Zealanders over the last decade. Many investors ...
The SPIVA scorecard
SPIVA (Standard & Poors Index vs Active) research is a very extensive study looking at ...
Estate planning – checklist
Get your affairs in order before you die Losing your parent or partner is one ...
Time in the markets vs timing the markets
The cost of trying to time the markets The impact of missing just a few ...
Fund managers rarely outperform the market for long
Article from The Economist, Buttonwood June 24 2017 Sheer luck is as good as past ...
Business will never go out of business – Covid-19
While the impact of Covid-19 on world economies has not fully played out and portfolios ...
The value of advice quantified
The Financial Services Council surveyed 2,000 New Zealanders in March 2020 and found those people ...
David Booth on Forecasting Returns
In this video Dimensional Fund Advisors' founder David Booth shares his perspective on the limitations ...
Hidden fees in currency transactions
Beware of the hidden fees charged by banks While banks often disclose for overseas money ...
The randomness of investment returns
The folly of chasing returns When you look at world share market returns are there ...
How the Dow Jones Index has performed over 120 years
In 2016 Chris Kacher, MoKa Investors published a graph of the Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
Eugene Fama’s Noble Prize – Efficient Markets
The 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Eugene Fama, with two others, for ...
The right time myth
When is the right time to invest? Some investors say they will wait to invest ...
Dr Richard Thaler, Nobel Prize in behavioural finance
What can we learn from Thaler's research in attitudes and behavioural finance? Do investors behave ...
Macro-economic mechanical computer
William Phillips originally an electrical engineer who became an economist in the 1950's designed a ...
Alison coping with breast cancer
Alison Renfrew was diagnosed with breast cancer on 5th December 2006. The image above is ...