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Active Managers are Getting Clobbered

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:50 pm
by rocketdog
Nothing new here, just further confirmation of what so many other studies have shown:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/sorry-sto ... 12651.html

Re: Active Managers are Getting Clobbered

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 1:52 pm
by craigr
That can't be true because active managers are all above average! They're all winners!

Re: Active Managers are Getting Clobbered

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 2:11 pm
by rocketdog
craigr wrote: That can't be true because active managers are all above average! They're all winners!
Only the managers in Lake Wobegon.  ;)

Re: Active Managers are Getting Clobbered

Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2013 8:08 pm
by sophie
Not if you have the right mindset and pick the right stocks, Steinmetz said.

"Stock picking is always going to be the way to get superior returns if you focus on picking great companies," he said.
This is what you call a circular argument of very small radius  :)

Re: Active Managers are Getting Clobbered

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 7:32 am
by dualstow
sophie wrote:
Not if you have the right mindset and pick the right stocks, Steinmetz said.

"Stock picking is always going to be the way to get superior returns if you focus on picking great companies," he said.
This is what you call a circular argument of very small radius  :)
It reminds me of the Will Rogers quote. "Only buy stocks that are going to go up. If they don't go up, don't buy'em." Except that Steinmetz isn't trying to be facetious. ;-)