Graham Bentley: On the evidence

Evidence-based investing

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Investment management is a trinity of passive, factor and stock selection, writes Graham Bentley. Being an advocate of all three, used in the most appropriate circumstances, is perhaps the more realistic definition of evidence-based investing

While the so-called ‘active versus passive' debate has a 40-year history, it is only relatively recently that a fashionable antagonism towards active management has arisen - closely correlated with a zealous championing of passive solutions under the general heading of ‘evidence-based investing'.  Support for evidence-based investing is also closely linked to the contemporary popularising of what investment professionals used to call behavioural economics - and before that cognitive psychology. Decorating the rejection of a perceived fund management ‘establishment' with a liberal sprinkl...

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