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  • Start here
    • All posts
    • The basics
    • Portfolio construction
    • Active vs Passive
    • Investing theory
    • Pensions and ISAs
    • Financial advisers
    • DIY vs outsourcing
    • Expected returns
    • Random thoughts
  • Resources
    • Asset allocation
    • Expected returns
    • Fund selection
    • Finding a broker
    • Useful calculators
    • Retirement
    • Personal finance
    • Education
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Portfolio Construction

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Here you’ll find all the posts on portfolio construction.

If you have any questions which aren’t answered in the articles below, please let me know.

NB: If there’s an article title with no link, it means it’s an idea for a future post.

  1. Equity funds
      • The best Vanguard equity funds
      • Is dividend investing a good strategy?
      • Equity funds – to hedge or not to hedge?
  2. Bond funds
      • The best Vanguard bond funds
      • How to predict bond returns
      • Is the stock/bond correlation about to turn positive?
      • Have bonds ever failed?
      • All about inflation-linked bonds
      • Why you should own inflation-linked bonds
      • Why you shouldn’t own inflation-linked bonds
      • Should you own inflation-linked bonds?
      • Duration matching: an introduction
          • Why you should own long-term bonds
          • Duration matching in practice
          • Against duration matching
          • Should you use duration matching?
      • Should you invest in corporate bonds?
      • Bonds vs bond funds
      • Bonds – to hedge or not to hedge?
  3. Other asset classes
      • What’s the best crash protection for your portfolio?
      • Should you invest in gold?
      • Should you invest in a concentrated fund?
      • Against thematic funds
      • Against hedge funds
      • Against other alternatives
  4. General
      • What if my broker goes bust?
      • What is the rebalancing bonus?
      • How often should you rebalance your portfolio?
      • Size matters: how small is too small? (for an asset class)
      • Index funds vs ETFs
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