Today's market falls in the context of history

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Context is an important tool when it comes to investing. All investors around the world will be feeling the emotional pressures of the recent rapid equity market falls, either because they can remember previous falls and times of uncertainty, such as the Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009), or as younger investors, they have not yet experienced material market falls.

AcuityINSIGHT: The majority of fund managers do not win at investingIncreasingly, investors are becoming aware that investing costs really matter. Perhaps fewer know that the majority of active fund managers who promise to beat the market fail to deliver on that promise.

AcuityINSIGHT: All together now: ‘Costs really matter’Despite years of pressure from the likes of Vanguard, a large gap still exists between the relative costs of index funds and those of judgemental (active) managers. Using primary data, we examine those differences for all open-end UCITS funds/ETFs available to UK investors. Over time, costs make a b

AcuityINSIGHT: The unhelpful noise of short-term performanceThis issue of Insight takes a look at the temptations and challenges of short-term performance noise and looks at two high media profile performance-driven examples. Picking winners is extremely challenging.

Today's market falls in the context of history

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