Bad tempered rants Archives – IT Investor Exploring the world of investment trusts Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:43:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cropped-IT_icon-32x32.png Bad tempered rants Archives – IT Investor 32 32 Should We Pay Up For Performance? https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/2019/11/should-we-pay-up-for-performance/ https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/2019/11/should-we-pay-up-for-performance/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:30:01 +0000 https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/?p=2137 Regular readers may know that I’m often vexed by the cost of investment funds. But there’s one element that doesn’t distress me that much. And that is a performance fee. I suspect I’m out of kilter with many private investors on this. And the current trend in the industry certainly seems to be away from… 

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]]> https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/2019/02/kids-the-gloves-are-off/feed/ 0 3 Maths Mistakes That Drive Me Nuts https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/2018/12/3-maths-mistakes-that-drive-me-nuts/ https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/2018/12/3-maths-mistakes-that-drive-me-nuts/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:39:14 +0000 https://www.itinvestor.co.uk/?p=1131 When you're messing around with statistics it's all too easy to come up with something that's horrendously misleading. Investing stats are no different. Here are three that really set my teeth on edge.

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