Robin Powell

Buying individual stocks is a poor investment strategy. One reason is that we're naturally drawn to the wrong ones. Investors rarely buy a spreadsheet. They buy a story. New factories. Bold acquisitions. A firm building an empire at speed. It feels like the kind of company that will deliver. But fast expansion is not the same as productive spending. Work on the investment factor, including research by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, suggests that companies with very high asset growth have tended to underperform. The effect is clearest among smaller companies, where heavy investment often sits alongside weak profits. As this video explains, it's not the most important factor. Market risk comes first, then value, size and profitability. But investment earns its place in the queue. #Stocks #Equities #Investing #EvidenceBasedInvesting

Here's the full article on TEBI ➡️ evidenceinvestor.com/post/investing… Really interested to hear what people think. If you'd have taken the coin flip, what made the risk feel worth it? And if you went for the guaranteed £50,000, was that a considered call, or just instinct kicking in?

YouGov asked 4,598 British adults: guaranteed £50,000, or a coin flip with a 50 per cent shot at £1 million. 73 per cent took the guaranteed money. That's not irrationality. It's a different kind of risk to the one investing actually asks you to take. A coin flip is one moment. Heads or tails, decided in a single toss. Nothing else can soften a bad result. Investing isn't that flip repeated every day for 40 years with your whole pot back on the table each time. It's putting a small amount in on lots of different days, spread across thousands of companies, instead of one huge bet on a single event. Lose the coin flip and you lose everything. Have a bad day, a bad company, even a bad year in a diversified portfolio, and the other thousands of days and companies are still working alongside it. The coin gives you one moment. Your portfolio gives you 40 years of them.

Performance comparisons can be shaped by benchmarks, assumptions and data choices. Investors should look carefully at the evidence. #Investing #InvestmentCosts

Further UEFA statement on FIFA plans: ⬇️

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We often hear that if passive's share of the market reaches a certain point, markets will cease to function properly. But is it actually true? Any paper in the Financial Analysts Journal claims not. Read our latest article on TEBI and let us know your thoughts. #Markets

Incentives can shape investment behaviour. More activity is not always better for the end investor. #InvestmentCosts #SmartInvesting

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Buying individual stocks is a poor investment strategy. One reason is that we're naturally drawn to the wrong ones. Investors rarely buy a spreadsheet. They buy a story. New factories. Bold acquisitions. A firm building an empire at speed. It feels like the kind of company that will deliver. But fast expansion is not the same as productive spending. Work on the investment factor, including research by Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, suggests that companies with very high asset growth have tended to underperform. The effect is clearest among smaller companies, where heavy investment often sits alongside weak profits. As this video explains, it's not the most important factor. Market risk comes first, then value, size and profitability. But investment earns its place in the queue. #Stocks #Equities #Investing #EvidenceBasedInvesting

Let me say this very directly. Football does not belong to investors. It belongs to the people who fill the stands and who stand on the touchline week in, week out, rain or shine. The World Cup is not a product. It is the greatest competition in world sport, and it was never anyone's to sell. Dress the deal up however you like. Once you have sold a piece of it, you have sold out. Football belongs to the fans. It always has, and it always will.

@NicCrossLingo Good job. 20 years from now, your daughters are going to realize they won the parental lottery!

@RobinJPowell My daughters‘ investment accounts dollar cost average into the All Country World Index each month. Over the years the difference has been negligible but the diversification is significant

Just buy the S&P 500.' That's advice from smart people. Buffett, Bogle, Samuelson all said it. And if you'd followed it for 15 years, you'd have crushed it. But it hides something almost nobody talks about.

@daveglass1 Love it! Great idea.

Contrarian decisions are easier to admire than to make. A written plan can help when markets feel uncomfortable. #BehaviouralFinance #LongTermInvesting

UEFA statement on The Times article: ⬇️

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AI is doing much of the work financial advisers used to do. But does it mean you no longer need to use one? Absolutely not. If anything, it exposes exactly what advisers should actually be doing. A chatbot can model your pension, calculate your tax and suggest a portfolio. What it can't do is notice when you're about to abandon a sensible plan because markets just fell. Or work out which of several reasonable options you can genuinely live with. Or challenge you when you're quietly confirming what you wanted to hear anyway. That's the hard part of financial advice. The part that matters. #FinancialAdvice #FinancialPlanning

@jerrodjam @cyclist_jim I'm a journalist, not an adviser, but I personally invest in a Vanguard LifeStrategy fund, an MSCI World index tracker and three factor-based funds from Avantis.

@cyclist_jim @RobinJPowell What global index fund do you like? I will add it to my list, you are right I ignored the importance of diversifying globally

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Morningstar employs some of the sharpest fund analysts in the business. Even they struggle to tell in advance which active funds will outperform. @DanielSotiroff explains why, in this new video: separating genuine manager skill from luck is far harder than it looks. Even Morningstar's own team has been caught out by funds that didn't behave the way their research predicted. His advice: broad, cheap index funds first. Go further only if you're honest about how much time you'll actually put in. 👉 If the professionals find this hard, what chance does the average investor have? 🤔

@On_A_Journey_to Thanks for the feedback, Nick. Impartiality is really important. The problem with much financial education content, and even financial journalism, is that it’s ultimately designed to sell you something.

@RobinJPowell Hi Robin, been watching a few of your YT videos. Very educating as well impartial facts and appreciate you dont make "sponsored" videos & no hard sell to an online investing class.