UK 23:09 Tuesday, 15 September 2026
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It is certainly fair to say that you do not need to be weird in order to be a weirdo, just as some people make some great investment returns without doing any research. However, a bit of regular investment research improves the odds. Sadly, it is not that effortlessly more investment work inexorably leads to better results. As I was telling a contact of mine on Friday last week who wants to manage their own pension fund, you need to also be a bit savvy and accept that you will make plenty of mistakes. However, the personal investment game is far from boring, and that’s the good news.
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