About Independent Investor


Ideas and insights from the best investment minds
Ideas and insights from the best investment mindsDo you need to keep in touch with what the best professional investors are thinking and doing? If so, the Independent Investor website could be just what you need. Most of the material here is free, including regular commentary by the founder Jonathan Davis, market views from our panel of leading professional investors and an opportunity to put questions directly to big names in the investment business. Find out more today.  More...
 

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There is a better way to stop bank failures
There is a better way to stop bank failuresIf public agencies are to supervise seriously the strategies of high street and investment banks, we might as well nationalise them. More...
Books: the good, the bad and the cheesy
Books: the good, the bad and the cheesyIdeas - even those about business - often find their best expression in fiction. More...
Seeing is believing when it comes to inflation
Seeing is believing when it comes to inflation Perceptions of inflation are formed, not by the ONS, but by the most salient prices. More...
Market Q and A: Sandy Nairn
Market Q and A: Sandy NairnFew professional investors can claim to have had a better training in investment essentials than Sandy Nairn, CEO of Edinburgh Partners.
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New and Recent Publications


Investing with Anthony Bolton
Investing with Anthony BoltonA new and updated paperback edition of this in-depth study of the career and investment methods of the most successful UK fund manager of his generation is now available at a special price for visitors to this site.  More...
Investing in Funds Online
A new 12-part guide to funds, written by the founder of Independent Investor, explains how you can use the resources of the Internet to avoid the common mistakes that cause most fund investors to experience indifferent results.  More...

From The Archive


Rushbrook and Fisher are at odds - again
The markets seem once again to be settling into one of those uneasy periods when stock market investors are fretting, but it is still not clear to me that their anxieties are well-founded. As usual, it helps to look at contrasting expert views of what lies ahead. More...
Why Anthony Bolton is bearish again
Why Anthony Bolton is bearish againFor the second time in a year, Anthony Bolton, the most successful fund manager of his generation, is reported to be taking out a put option to protect his UK funds against a significant market fall. Why? More...