investing

The final chapter of our groundbreaking documentary

The growing popularity in the UK of passive investing

Why is active investing still so popular?

How passive investing takes the emotion - and stress - out of managing your money

How a diversified portfolio helps smooth out market volatility and keep costs low

Passive investing is an evidence-based approach which is proven to work.

How management costs dramatically reduce the value of investments

Do fund managers really beat the market?

Indexing is the best option for the vast majority of investors. But is there ever a case for choosing an actively managed fund?

Research shows that only a minute number of funds will ever beat the market on a sustained basis

Passive investing can work for the small cap sector as well as blue chip stocks

Charles Ellis on how many active funds actually manage to beat the market

David Booth on why the passive investment experience makes for a better lifestyle

Gus Sauter on the growth of passive investing

Jasmine Birtles on why passive investing is not more popular

Bill McNabb on the growth potential for passive investing in the UK.

Dan Goldie on whether investors buy and sell shares too often

Warren Buffett is a highly successful stock picker, so why aren't there lots more like him?

How the overall costs of active investing can accumulate and impact on returns

Why paying your fund manager more means you'll make less.

How passive investing helps spread risk and avoid surprises

Dan Goldie on whether people can manage without a financial adviser

Many fund managers choose passive investing when it comes to their own money

Taxpayers could save £660 million a year if government switched pensions to passive funds - with better performance, too.

The remarkable success of this groundbreaking investing documentary

An interview with Gerard O'Reilly, head of research, Dimensional Fund Advisors.

How active investing costs more and consistently delivers less

Why numbers count when investing for the long term

As the year draws to a close, Sensible Investing takes a look back and pinpoints the investing world's big winners and losers of 2012.

The growth in passive investing is gathering pace

The effect of fees on performance

After two years, 150+ videos and more than 160,000 views, there's even more to the new sensibleinvesting.tv!

One of the most striking recollections of interviewing Professor William Sharpe at his home in Carmel, California, for our documentary Passive Investing: The Evidence was his emphatic response when asked to give his golden rules for successful investing.

What's the most important lesson investors can learn from the weather? Prepare for the worst - because it inevitably will happen.

On the face of it, the abolition of commission-based payments for DIY investment platforms is excellent news for investors.

Those, like us, who’ve been watching the active versus passive investing debate unfold online these past few months will have noticed two very definite trends.

As every investor knows - or ought to - it’s best to invest for the long term.

Regular readers of this blog will know that we wouldn’t, under any circumstances, recommend anyone pays a professional stock-picker to buy and sell shares on their behalf.

However, if you really are determined to try to beat the market, how about hiring the services of the family pet?

There was a feeling of déjà vu when the FTSE 100 broke through the 6000 barrier this week. We’ve been there several times since the late ‘90s and, who knows, we may well pass it on the way up and down several more times yet.

No one likes to be average. Even the least ambitious among us aspires to be good at something.

Fads and fashions in the investing world come and go. But few would dispute that the growing popularity of passive investing and ethical investing are more than just passing trends.

What impact do world events have on your investments?

Why risk is a better place to start than performance when planning your portfolio

Why being an evidence-based tortoise beats being a market-chasing hare

Is it possible to invest responsibly and still make decent returns?

Bonds are traditionally seen as the 'safe' component in an investment portfolio

Shares are a vital component of any well-balanced investment portfolio

The seven things you need to know to be a successful investor.

All that glitters is not gold; and when it comes to investing, all that's gold does not glitter.

Part three in a four-part series exploring the foundations of passive investing

Part two of a four part series exploring the foundations of passive investing

Part one of a four-part series exploring the foundations of passive investing

How the UK Government is wasting £660 million a year on active investing