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Investment beliefs: myth or reality?

Alan Pickering

20 September 2019 • 3 min read

Scheme investment strategies should focus on the needs and desires of members, but head should always overrule heart, says Alan Pickering

I am not normally pedantic when it comes to the choice of words - spade and shovel are interchangeable. However, I have always baulked at the phrase ‘investment beliefs' to describe the periodic dr...

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