Stocks have been on a bull run. The S&P 500 delivered 26% in 2023, 25% in 2024, and 17% in 2025. In that same period, Aston Villa have the best home record of any team in Europe's top five leagues. As any #AVFC fan knows, that's not normally how it works..

The 2026 prediction machine is running hot. Recession. Stagflation. Bubbles. Even WW3. But forecasters have a dreadful record. A New Year's resolution I recommend to all investors is to tune out the noise. #Investing

UK ministers and regulators have completely lost the plot on financial regulation. @TheFCA wants to let fund managers charge performance fees on top of existing pension charges — and the Telegraph reports this as "pro-growth reform" giving savers "access to top City money

RT @RobinJPowell: Swedish financial group Söderberg & Partners has invested in @rockwealthUK — backing evidence-based planning with fair, f…

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There's a heated debate about whether we're in an AI bubble and how to position your portfolio in case we are. So what would the late Nobel laureate Harry Markowitz have said? 🤔 Here's the first in our latest video series for @IFAdotcom — The Papers That Changed Investing. 👇

Paul Samuelson once said investing should feel like “watching paint dry”. If you want excitement, he said, take $800 to Las Vegas. The trouble is we DO crave excitement. Dopamine pushes us towards whatever’s booming — whether it's tulips, railways, dotcoms, Bitcoin or AI stocks.

𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐛𝐬? Cambridge economist William Janeway says history offers a clue. Capitalism progresses through “productive bubbles”, and this may be the latest How long can today’s AI boom run before markets start demanding proof?

Markets will surprise you. Morgan Housel says calm acceptance is the real advantage. #InvestorPsychology #SmartInvesting

Making this series for @Timeline_Tech has brought me more satisfaction than than almost any other in recent years. It captures what we miss in all the market noise and the endless debate about investment strategy 👉 Good financial planning changes lives for the better

Markets have been on a storming run these last few months.. and there are warnings of a bubble in AI stocks, a possible correction, or even a crash. So what should you do if you have a lump sum to invest? It’s not an easy decision to make. But research by Vanguard and

ABC News on the AI stock boom: “To earn their normal return on the capital they’ve invested so far, the eight biggest AI companies will have to make revenue of $1 trillion a year. It’s a mind-blowing number.” #AI #Stocks #Markets https://t.co/JOBZW83OEm

Brain v market. Market wins shock! It always does.

If you flip 10,000 coins, some will land on heads 5 times in a row. That's not skill. It's maths. Active funds work the same way. With thousands of funds, some will beat their benchmark for a few years. But hardly any do it long-term on a risk-adjusted basis. Why? Because luck

Warren Buffett's 43-year record proves even he couldn't sustain alpha long-term. Act One (1981-2002): 16.77% alpha, t-stat 3.13 ✅ Act Two (2003-2023): 0.15% alpha, t-stat 0.06 ❌ His advice? Put 90% in index funds. If the Oracle of Omaha tells you stock-picking doesn't work

RIP Jonathan Clements, top journalist and all-round human being. Jonathan was a courageous truth-teller and unwavering advocate for low-cost indexing. But as he reminded me in a recent interview, investing is only a means to an end. Its purpose is to help you enjoy life to

Morningstar just proved what we suspected: tactical allocation fund managers who constantly adjust portfolios would have earned investors nearly 4 percentage points per year MORE if they'd gone fishing instead. 🎣 Jeffrey Ptak tested tactical funds vs a "do-nothing" index

BBC confirms biggest expansion in the West Midlands in over 10 years The BBC has today signed a second memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and Create Central, as part of its Across the UK strategy. More ➡️ https://t.co/ZWqFmDeeEP

They're called 'stablecoins' but research shows they crash during stress. Nobel economist warns of taxpayer bailouts. Professor calls it 'shadow banking with new branding.' £280bn sits in these 'stable' currencies lacking regulation. Are we repeating 2008's mistakes with

😫 Every day the algorithm fills my timeline with posts from right-wing politicians and influencers.. even though I never click on them. Please, give me a break.