A total of 9 funds from September's 23 funds make it into October's selection. Below I list this month's selection in full with the 9 funds that regained their place in black while the...
It's a brave person that invests in emerging markets right now. The chart below shows how emerging equities have performed versus their developed word counterparts in recent history. Emerging market equities...
In recent weeks we've seen an incredible amount of volatility in stock markets. When I say volatility I am talking about the wild market swings up and down. The chart...
A total of 10 funds from August make it into September's selection, which is just less than half of them. Below I list this month's selection in full with the 13 funds that regained...
What a fascinating/crazy week for equity markets. In my recent weekly 80-20 Investor newsletter I gave a sense of perspective to what had been happening. Since then investment markets have become...
"Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing" - Warren Buffett How many funds should you have in a portfolio? Furthermore how...
80-20 Investor officially launched to DIY investors in January 2015. Since then 80-20 Investor has gone from strength to strength in terms of members and also in performance and the value...
A total of 11 funds from July make it into August's selection, which is just less than half of them. Below I list this month's selection in full with the 11 funds that...
Fund charges are a huge point of contention in the world of investing. Let's imagine that there are two funds, Fund A and Fund B. Now let's say that they...
The price of gold has recently been in free-fall plummeting to a five year low (see chart below of performance for the year to date). Those trying to rationalise the rout are citing a rising dollar (gold is denominated in dollars so a strong dollar makes it expensive to buy),...
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