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INVESTMENT BLOG
The Latest on Equities, Bonds, Economics, Behavioural Investing, Climate Change & More
Peter Elston
- Feb 3
- 7 min
Setting A Bad Example
The effort to improve financial literacy in this country itself needs to be improved
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Peter Elston
- Feb 1
- 5 min
What Makes A Good Investor?
Grey is the new gold! There will be as many opinions about what makes a good investor as there are investors. Here's mine.
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Peter Elston
- Jan 27
- 4 min
Taking The Fear Out Of Maths
Improving maths standards will involve addressing the very real problem of maths anxiety
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Peter Elston
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Auntie! No!
The PM should start with the BBC when it comes to improving maths standards
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Peter Elston
- Jan 6
- 6 min
Do Not Let Your Comfortable Retirement Slip Away
Now is the time for a truly bold asset allocation
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Peter Elston
- Dec 2, 2022
- 8 min
Vanguard Doubles Down
The passive fund behemoth refuses to consider possibility that inflation will remain high
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Peter Elston
- Oct 20, 2022
- 1 min
Citywire: Wealth Managers May Need A Complete Rethink
My latest piece, published in Citywire, takes aim at balanced and risk-rated funds
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Peter Elston
- Aug 26, 2022
- 4 min
OK, But What Do The Patterns Actually Mean?
Patterns in financial markets relate to human behaviour, the business cycle, and longer inflation cycles
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Peter Elston
- Aug 25, 2022
- 4 min
Randomness And The Galton Board
For those who know what the normal/Gaussian distribution looks like but are not quite sure what it is
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Peter Elston
- Aug 22, 2022
- 6 min
A Statistical Appraisal Of Bond And Equity Behaviour
Bonds and equities exhibit fundamentally different patterns
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Peter Elston
- Aug 3, 2022
- 3 min
Where Are We In The Cycle?
A reminder about what empirical research tells us about business cycle phases and asset class returns
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Peter Elston
- Jul 14, 2022
- 4 min
Blurred Lines or No Lines?
Retail investors cannot be adequately protected until the fundamental similarity between investing and gambling is recognised
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Peter Elston
- Jun 21, 2022
- 4 min
Do Trends Exist?
It's not about cycles and trends, but pattern and randomness
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Peter Elston
- May 25, 2022
- 2 min
It's Time to Start Thinking in Real Terms
There are two effects of high inflation. The first is one that we have in recent weeks and months become brutally aware of, namely its...
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Peter Elston
- Apr 30, 2022
- 4 min
Tools of the Trade
In this post I set out a classification scheme for publicly available investment funds. It is hoped this can provide those readers who ...
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Peter Elston
- Feb 1, 2022
- 3 min
Growing Pains
I remember feeling extremely honoured when I was invited four years ago to write this column. It seemed to me to be a great opportunity.
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Peter Elston
- Sep 30, 2021
- 3 min
When the Fun Stops...
How can young people be helped to reach this epiphany sooner?
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