Pat

Pat has over a decade of experience in financial markets, and helped run the global electronic fixed income & currency trading desk of a multinational bank.

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Are low costs and investment outperformance incompatible?

You don't want to pay excessive fees. Yet you want your investments to perform. Can you get the best of both worlds, or is it a pipedream?

January 11, 2021

How to increase the performance of your investment portfolio

What are the ways to increase the performance of your investments?

January 11, 2021

Why pay for your fund manager's 20th best idea?

Why would you want your fund manager's 20th best idea? It's not a rhetorical question: there ARE reasons you may want that 20th best idea.

January 11, 2021

Life's not all about money: the case for hassle-free investing

The goal of investing is to maximize returns for the least risk, right? Maybe not.

January 11, 2021

When you can and cannot afford investment losses

Nobody likes to lose money on an investment. But sometimes you can afford to.

January 11, 2021

The problem with stock tips

How often do you invest based on a stock tip? What problems have you come across doing so?

January 11, 2021