Good reads from around the Web.
I read at least 100 investing articles every week, probably twice as many company news stories and 30-40 RNS updates from companies reporting to the stock market.
Like every week, some of the better ones are collated below.
But let’s face it, you’re not going to enjoy any of them as much as a cartoon from Dilbert creator Scott Adams!
Adams has begun a new investing advice series:
Note to newbies: This cartoon is *ironic*.
He has actually written quite a bit over the years about investing – I’ve previously featured one of his old cartoons – and all his work
Adams advocates index funds and passive investing, obviously.
If only he could teach us how to be creative geniuses, too.
From the blogs
Making good use of the things that we find…
Passive investing
A positive passive investing behaviour gap – A Wealth of Common Sense
Why we don’t make good decisions – The Irrelevant Investor
Active investing
Consumer defensives: A must own sector – Total Return Investor
Keep your stock picking simple – Dividend Mantra
The aging of the tech sector – Musings on Markets
Where are the activist investors? – Oddball Stocks
Bunzl’s metronomic growth – Richard Beddard
How to respond to a dividend cut – UK Value Investor
Other articles
The biology of stock market booms and busts – The Psy-Fi Blog
Physical labour is good for the soul – The Escape Artist
Fear of a frothy market – Simple Living in Suffolk
Four paradoxes of the consumer society – FIREstarter
The golden age of the introverted entrepreneur – Medium
Product of the week: Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank have increased their two-year cash ISA rates to 2.1%, which makes them Best Buys according to ThisIsMoney.
Mainstream media money
Some links are Google search results – in PC/desktop view these enable you to click through to read the piece without being a paid subscriber of that site.1
Passive investing
Don’t make the trading gods laugh… – Bloomberg
…particularly with your feeble forecasts – Motley Fool US
Roth: Getting real about fund fees – AARP
Active investors: Yes, the world is out to get you – Bloomberg
Active investing
Generating returns from renewables [Search result] – FT
Property crowding-funding is a great idea – in theory [Search result] – FT
Housel: The case for leaving your portfolio alone – Motley Fool US
10 AIM shares for dividend growth – Interactive Investor
Get ready for some terrible returns from equities – Business Insider
Gold is the worst investment in history – Daily Finance
Other stuff worth reading
Case studies as ‘pension freedom day’ approaches – Guardian
Putting a pension into a fossil museum [Or similar business!] – Telegraph
What about investing a pension into buy-to-let property? – ThisIsMoney
How living frugally changed one man’s life – Daily Finance
The state of UK housing in six charts – Guardian
Book of the week: UK property investor Rob Dix kindly sent me a PDF of his first book a few years ago, which I never got around to reviewing. I found it an approachable and useful read, albeit informed by a focus on an asset class that has almost only ever gone up over the period Dix has been involved! His latest book, 100 Property Investment Tips, was published this month.
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Note some FT articles can only be accessed through the search results if you’re using PC/desktop view (from mobile/tablet view they bring up the firewall/subscription page). To circumvent, switch your mobile browser to use the desktop view. On Chrome for Android: press the menu button followed by “Request Desktop Site”.