History suggests no market fashion or trend persists indefinitely

Ordinary investors are free to avoid the short-termism that plagues professionals

Recent indications show profitability is coming under pressure

Leading oil and gas companies have a lot to fear from eventual introduction of a carbon tax

Practice has yielded handsome returns in the past but failed to bear fruit in recent years

When stocks bottomed out in 2009 there was fear of meltdown of the financial system

Whatever about the short term, emerging markets can be a very good option

Interestingly, long-term investors in Ireland have not fared badly over the last decade

Many experts were given Nostradamus status in the aftermath of the financial crisis

Merrill Lynch monthly fund manager survey suggests indices haven’t yet bottomed

Ethical investors can outperform if they engage with corporate sinners

Computers increasingly dominate today’s investment world, but they can only go so far

Bears see this as temporary but bulls think profit margins have risen to a permanently higher plateau

Stocktake: with value stocks in a slump, the tortoise and hare approach may lose its appeal

Stocktake: Bitcoin ‘virus’ peaks; Barclays’ equity study; Buffet the billionaire boy

Performance does not persist, as shown by the latest scorecard from S&P Dow Jones Indices

Why is herding such a problem in financial markets?

Global stock markets have fluctuated wildly this month, with the Dublin market losing 6.2 per cent in the year to date

Stocktake: Investors are still jumping in as FOMO trumps worry of losing money

Stocktake: US stocks set for bumper earnings season as S&P 500 surge continues

The Cape ratio is twice as high as its average, but no one is panicking yet

Stocktake: Gains of over 50% predicted, with no sign of bull market party ending soon

Stock-pickers promise gains in next slump despite years of underperformance by funds

The last time fund managers were nearly as concerned as now was in the late 1990s

Stocktake: Best-looking analysts get more sensitive information from management – study

A cool look beyond the bluster at the Republican candidate’s financial prowess

With real estate added as a new global index sector, Reits will see more growth

Jeremy Grantham’s mea culpa, low volatility, crude predictions, in the red

Investment decisions questioned, from predictions to deposit-free mortgages

History indicates stocks tend not to be impacted until late in the rate-hiking cycle, but analysts caution the current monetary environment is unlike any other

Office of Financial Research says US markets overpriced and heading for trouble

Research from the money manager suggests even the world’s best-performing portfolios can be undone by inattention to fees

The bubble burst in March 2000, proving that sometimes investors go bananas and rationality goes out the window

An increasing number of strategists believe we are in a secular bull market, with any decline likely to prove fleeting

Investment managers are struggling to give advice as even emerging markets don’t look attractive

Bulls are not convinced by indicators showing that the US market is severely overvalued

Most fund managers underperform their benchmarks and this is likely to continue