En ny robotrådgivareför ETFer har sett sin app laddas ned mer än 10 000 gånger, vilket denna robotrådgivare anser vara ett rekord för denna typ av tjänst på den europeiska marknaden. Företaget bakom plattformen och appen är ETFmatic. Lanseringen skedde i juni 2016 med syfte att förse investerare med unika diversifierade portföljer till en så pass låg förvaltningskostnad som 0,5 procent per år. I dag finns appen tillgänglig på 17 olika marknader runt om i Europa.
En företrädare för ETFmatic säger att de anser att alla förtjänar ett enkelt och kostnadseffektivt sätt att få sparpengarna att arbeta för en. Bolaget anser att investerare har fler fördelar av att bygga unika portföljer med hjälp av börshandlade fonder som byggstenar än av att använda sig av dyra fondprodukter från finansiella institutioner.
ETFmatic anser att en portfölj skall bete sig som investeraren vill, och inte sammanställas av någon annan som sedan sköter den på grund av sina egna incitament. Ett exempel som ETFmatic framhåller är att om investeraren är rädd för en marknadsnedgång så måste portföljen anpassas för detta faktum.
I dag har hundratals personer valt att anlita de tjänster som denna robotrådgivare för ETFer erbjuder, och bolaget har sett en ökning av kunder med cirka tio (10) procent i veckan sedan starten. Tjänsten kräver en minimal investering på £ 100 eller € 100.
ETFmatic säger att bolaget inte förväntar sig att Brexit skall ha en negativ inverkan på företagets tillväxtplaner, i alla fall inte på kort sikt. ETFmatic säger att på lång sikt vidtar bolaget de nödvändiga åtgärderna för att säkerställa att detta inte kommer att påverka ETFmatics förmåga att betjäna sina kunder utanför Storbritannien.
Robin Powell interviews Lars Kroijer / Investment author
Hello there.
It has been said that diversification is the investing equivalent of a free lunch. The evidence shows that it’s the best way to manage risk and that, over the long-term, it also leads to higher returns. The good news is that index funds and other passively managed investments have diversification built in. Here’s investment author Lars Kroijer.
I believe in index funds because you can very cheaply get exposure to a very broad array of industries, sectors, geographies and jurisdictions without really doing much yourself. It is better than buying A: individual stocks or even picking individual industries or countries.
We’re always hearing of investors who managed to buy just the right thing at the right time. But they’re actually a tiny minority. Sure, you might get lucky.. but why take the risk of being unlucky?
Take the example 20 years ago that you had invested in just one market. If you’d picked the right market that would’ve been great. If you had picked the market that was en vogue at the time namely Japan, you would’ve lost 75 or 80% of your money. If you had picked the whole world, which is what I advocate doing, you would had diversified the risk away of being unlucky and picking just one country, in this case Japan.
Of course, this is the age of globalisation. Markets in different parts of the world are more closely correlated than they were before. So, have the benefits of diversification lessened?
I’ll give the short answer and the short answer is yes. And why is that? Because companies are now more global, look at Google they operate in every country in the world I’m sure as does McDonalds and Phillips and all the other big companies. The short answer is the benefits of diversification is lessened. The cantor to that is though that 50 years ago, even when I was at University…not quite, in the early to mid 90’s you couldn’t actually buy it. So you could’t actually easily get exposure to most of these countries. If you say: “Let’s buy some shares in India”, well 20 years ago you couldn’t actually do it. You could by the US, some countries in Western Europe, perhaps Japan. All these other diversifying markets were simply not available to you. Now they are. Just like back then, index investments like Vanguard were just really beginning to increase in size, but even back then they only had the US markets. Now they’re global. Use those benefits you can gain from that.
That’s all for now. Thanks for watching.
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Robin Powell & Barry Ritholtz/ The Big Picture – Investors need to learn to sit on their hands
Hello there. It’s deeply ingrained in the human psyche that taking action is a positive thing. And in many cases it is. But successful investing usually entails the very opposite — in other words, discipline and self-restraint, feeling comfortable with doing nothing.
Here’s Barry Ritholtz, one of the most popular investment bloggers in the United States.
I began as a trader and I sat next to a row of guys and one guy was making a lot of money and the guy next to me wan’t making money. It kind of perplexed me as a newbie, how can these two guys, how are more or less…it looks like they doing the same thing, you know, moving there stuff around on the screen, buying and selling that. This guy is really profitable, this guy isn’t. And so, it started me about 20 years ago researching what was then the nascent field of behavioural economics. Why peoples psychology works against them, why the way we’re wired, your own wetware works against you in capital markets. And that gradually, over time I became less and less active as an investor. My holding periods became longer and longer and eventually I more or less adapted, I don’t want to say Warren Buffet’s “my holding period is for ever” but you start thinking about in terms of decades, not weeks and months.
One of the problems we face as investors is that we’re surrounded by “noise”. For example, we see and hear stories on radio and television about markets falling or rising sharply, and we’re tempted to act on impulse. And the newspapers are full of ideas about the latest investment opportunities. Almost invariably though, the best course of action for those with the right investment strategy in place, is inaction.
The biggest enemy of an investor is themselves. There is an number of studies that look at investor performance. Not versus a bench mark but versus their own holdings. And most investors underperform their own holdings. Now why is that? Well, some guys shows up on TV, his fund is up strong that year, the looks the part, he sounds good, so investors all pile into that. And what happens at that point: The mean reversion begins and after that hot streak comes to an end that fund either goes back to normal returns or worse, it makes up for that strong period. So what did they do?They sell out of the bottom. The ideal time to buy is not when somethings had a huge run up and the guys on the cover of a neutral fund magazine, it’s because I want exposure to that asset class and this is the least expensive and most efficient way to get that exposure.
Thank you to Barry Ritholtz for that insight, and to you for watching. Goodbye.
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How should investors diversify their portfolios
Robin Powell
Prof Martin Weber – University of Mannheim
Hello There! One of the most important lessons we’ve learned from more than 60 years of portfolio construction is that diversifying your investments is a very good idea.
Professor Martin Weber from the University of Mannheim is a recognised international authority on the subject. He says, every portfolio requires a degree of balance:
Diversifying is the key thing to investment. There is a big saying: diversification is the only free lunch you get or you hate risks and you can destroy risk by diversification. That’s the reason it is so important.
The next question is: How do you diversify? The important thing, says Professor Weber, is to diversify across different geographical regions and different asset classes.
The idea of optimally diversifying is that you look at different asset classes first and you diversify across different asset classes and as the second thing, even within these asset classes, you diversify as broad as possible. If you think about different asset classes, clearly as stock, bond and commodities – you can think about other ones – but these are the most liquid tradable asset classes.
Within the stock, you have a variety of different stocks.
Of course, the downside of diversification is that you aren’t heavily exposed to the sector that’s about to enjoy big returns.
But that’s not the point. After all, nobody knows which region or asset class is about to outperform from one year to the next. The beauty of the idea of diversifying is, that you always have some bad things and some good things happening: There might be a bond bubble, there might be a gold rush, there might be a lot of things going on. That is basically the idea of diversifying. If you use a passive diversified strategy, you don’t have to care. It doesn’t matter to you.
Most investors should primarily hold stocks, as well as bonds to dampen the risk. But Professor Weber also recommends keeping a cash reserve, for two reasons.
It’s basically an idea to reduce risk. That’s one reason why you should hold cash in accordance with your risk preference. The second reason is that it is a buffer in case you need some money because your car breaks down, you want to go for a big journey or remodel the house. That’s a different need of cash. So for those two different reasons you might want to hold cash.
So that, in a nutshell, is diversification. It’s not complicated, but it’s very sensible. After all, as an investor, it’s better to be roughly right than completely wrong. Thank you to Professor Weber, and to you for watching. Goodbye.
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Even fund managers can’t identify future outperformers
Even fund managers can’t identify future outperformers
Robin Powell
Prof. Raghavendra Rau – Cambridge Judge Business School
One of numerous studies showing how hard it is to identify, in advance, a fund that will outperform over the long term, was conducted by Cambridge Judge Business School in 2014. What the researchers wanted to find out was whether fund managers themselves can spot talent in each other, and perhaps benefit by copying what talented managers do.
“As a normal investor, someone who is not a fund manager, how do I find a good fund manager? What I do is maybe look up his rankings, maybe look up his portfolio holding, maybe I’ll say that this manager has been the best manager over the last two or five years, consistently beating his benchmark over the last few years. So, but what other information do I have? Not very much. But fund managers are in the same business, they hang out with each other, they go to Pubs together. They may not discuss their trades, but you talk to people and you can figure out pretty fast who are smart people and who are not smart people.”
It seems logical to think that if anyone can identify a future star manager it should be their peers. But the Cambridge study found that fund managers are as bad at spotting talent as the rest of us.
“It turns out, according to our study, that the people who copy are pretty much what you call desperate fund managers. They are managers who have not done very well. They have suffered an outflow of funds over the last year. They have funds that have underperformed, they have usually large fees. So now here is the problem: You’re a fund manager in a pretty bad state. You have no money to spend on research, you have no money to hire an analyst of your own. What do you do? Wouldn’t it be possible to find superior fund managers and just copy their trades? But how do you pick? Who do you know is a superior fund manager? What you should see are that the fund managers whom you copy don’t necessarily have good performance before you copy them, but they should have good performance after you start copying them. That means you identify the people whose public information will not tell if he’s a good fund manager or not, but private information will say if he’s a good fund manager or not. We don’t find out. What we find is: Copycats copy funds with good past performance. They copy funds which are exactly the kind of funds that you and I would copy with no information about these funds at all.”
This is yet more evidence trying to pick future winner is a thankless task. Far better not to try it at all, and simply aim to capture market returns by indexing. Thanks for watching.
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