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James Baker
James Baker
Published: 22nd July 2025
Diversification vs Duplication

Many portfolios that appear diversified are actually concentrated in the same stocks — leading to duplication, not true diversification.

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 27th June 2025
The emotions of investing

Humans aren't wired to be good investors

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 27th February 2025
The Voting Machine vs. The Weighing Machine

Don’t get lost in the noise.

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 19th February 2025
Setting sensible expectations for market returns

Forming sensible expected returns is crucial for building a strategy

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 11th December 2024
Stock diversification

The market portfolio provides a sensible starting point, but can be improved upon

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James Baker
James Baker
Published: 7th October 2024
Gambling vs Investing

Gambling is based on short-term luck whereas investing is about efficiently capturing the long-term growth on offer in equity and bond markets.

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 30th September 2024
Albion x P1 Investment Services

Exeter – 30 Sep 2024 - Albion Strategic Consulting partners with P1 Investment Services to launch discretionary version of smartersuccess™ service

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 13th September 2024
Markets move. This is the way.

Volatility is a feature, rather than a bug.

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James Baker
Euan Smith
Published: 16th October 2023
Investment momentum: myth or money-maker?

The momentum effect is well documented in investment returns, but how is momentum best incorporated into a sensible, well diversified portfolio?

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 14th June 2023
Jargon-busting: Return

This series of short notes aims to clear up some often used terms and concepts in the investing world.

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 15th March 2023
Jargon-busting: Volatility

This series of short notes aims to clear up some often used terms and concepts in the investing world.

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James Baker
Ben Edwards, CFA
Published: 14th December 2022
The power of capital markets

Markets move - that's the nature of the game

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