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How to make better investment decisions

By Damien Fahy
12 min Read 29 Jan 2025
Humans are naturally poor investors, often tripped up by our minds. Cognitive biases distort our thinking, while emotional biases cloud...

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80-20 Investor Best of the Best Selection - January 2025 Update

By Damien Fahy
7 min Read 03 Jan 2025
Commentary Of the 30 funds in December's BOTB selection 19 funds have retained their place after another month where the...

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Investment outlook for 2025

By Damien Fahy
14 min Read 28 Dec 2024
At the start of a new year, I like to write an investment outlook for the year ahead as well...

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The funds most exposed to a new banking crisis

By Damien Fahy
6 min Read 17 Feb 2016
The start of 2016 has been a dismal one for investors. The chart below shows how the major developed world indices have performed year to date. At their worst they were down between 10% and 20% (click to enlarge). Bank stocks and bonds tumble over crisis fears While the sell-off was broad...

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Protecting your portfolio income from dividend cuts

By Damien Fahy
5 min Read 10 Dec 2015
As 80-20 Investors know I'm regularly asked by the national press for my views on investing. This week a national newspaper asked me for my view on the worrying trend of FTSE 100 companies cutting their dividends. While 80-20 Investor primarily focuses on growth I appreciate that a number of members...

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Which is the most profitable day of the year to invest?

By Damien Fahy
3 min Read 26 Nov 2015
What a difference a day makes Within my recent monthly newsletter commentaries I mentioned that October is historically the worst month for stock market returns. In fact there have been numerous studies that examined how the stock market typically performs each month. Or in other words they examined the seasonality of stock...

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