Eugene Fama

Should investors ignore the bubble-watchers?

A Harvard study reveals clues to help investors avoid stock-market crashes

Taking stock of the human side of the investment game

Richard Thaler’s book ‘Misbehaving’ is a must-read for investors and non-investors

Smart beta strategies: Outsmarting the market?

Hybrid approach aims to combine the best parts of active and passive investing

Beware the bite of the ‘top dogs’

The top ranking companies in every sector go on to suffer years of underperformance, a US expert claims

Win or lose, are you lucky or shrewd?

Recent polls shows that people put good returns down to skill while bad ones are blamed on bad luck. But now there are calls for a more scientific approach

When it comes to investing, don’t ignore the Big Mo

Buying winners and selling losers sounds like a dumb money strategy, but momentum drives markets

Stocktake

Nobel prize a ‘farce’

Heads it’s pure skill, tails it’s luck – can the markets really be predicted?

Investors are increasingly realising that cheap index funds trump actively managed funds

StockTake: Eyebrows raised at Nobel economics call

Planet Business

This week: Robert Shiller, ‘Shutdownfreude’ and the restaurant that only hires twins

And the Nobel Prize in Economics goes to polar opposites

Believe in efficient markets? Or favour behavioural finance? You win either way

US economists win Nobel prize

Awarded prize for research that has improved the forecasting of asset prices

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