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The Insights

At TILLIT we are big believers in learning and broadening our horizons. Our Insight articles cover everything from the here and now in our Market reviews, to short and long reads about the fundamentals of investing, as well as unique thought pieces from leading fund managers in The Opinion, and much more.

Short reads - Asset allocation | Styles & themes

Property funds: safe as houses?

By Faith Archer
Reading time: 6 minutes

Investors wishing to profit from property prices and rental yields don’t have to buy a house, when they can invest in property funds instead. Rather than heading to an estate agent, try an investment platform. You can snap up a stake in a property fund with much less money and hassle than buying a building.

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Short reads - Sustainable investing

Keeping score: The truth about ESG ratings

By Anna Fedorova
Reading time: 6 minutes

As sustainable investing grows in popularity, how can we distinguish truly sustainable companies and funds from greenwashing? To help investors with this question, a growing number of companies offer ratings which rank stocks or funds based on a variety of ESG metrics. However, these ratings can sometimes be more of a hindrance than a help.

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Short reads - Sustainable investing

Impact funds: If finance and philanthropy had a love child

By Anna Fedorova
Reading time: 6 minutes

How do you marry a financial return with making the world a better place? Is it even possible or is it an oxymoron? Impact funds are here to prove that it can be done.

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Short reads - Active investing

Does the house always win?

By Jane Wallace
Reading time: 6 minutes

While they are perhaps not as well-dressed – or cosmetically enhanced – as the Kardashians, there is a select group of celebrity fund managers who regularly outperform and are endlessly profiled in the media. Deemed to have the Midas touch, these individuals often control staggering large amounts of money too.

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Short reads - Asset allocation

Multi-asset funds: The ready meal approach to investing

By Faith Archer
Reading time: 6 minutes

Multi-asset funds do exactly what they say on the tin: they contain a combination of different assets. Someone else picks the assets so that you don’t have to, serving up diversification on a plate.

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