Graham Bentley: Passives-only crowd taking heroin to treat a cough

Dangers of positive feedback loop

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Graham Bentley takes aim at the sacred cows of the passive-only movement, in the first part of a new series on active management...

Vermin Supreme is a candidate for the US Presidency. Vermin is not a generic term - Mr Supreme is a Democrat; a perennial candidate on the ballot for the New Hampshire primary, in the ‘bonkers' UK parliamentary tradition of Screaming Lord Such. I wish him luck in his struggle to lead the world's most powerful nation, because like most Brits I have a soft spot for underdogs: the plucky third tier football team challenging the mightiest of the Premier League, any British tennis player not called Andy Murray. Consequently I have taken it upon myself in 2016 to support a gutsy little unde...

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