Passive Investing: The Evidence the Fund Management Industry Would Prefer You Not to See

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15 thoughts on “Passive Investing: The Evidence the Fund Management Industry Would Prefer You Not to See

  1. Fees, funds, stocks and managed accounts frustrated me. It’s all based on
    monopoly money and BULL anyway .. so I moved in another direction. 

  2. This is a very poor and outrageously biased piece of work. Picking the
    ‘NEXT’ star manager is difficult – picking the current star managers is
    easy, just search the data. It’s like football. Everyone knows Mourhino
    and Ferguson are great managers with consistent long term results. The
    vast majority of football managers are not good at their job, but its easy
    to identify and back the winners. 

  3. This is rediculous. If you have true active managent, were you are avoiding
    the majority of a downward market while participating in the majority of an
    upward market, there’s no way an index can compete. If you have 1 dollar
    and lose 50 percent, you now have 50 cents and it will take a 100 percent
    gain to get back to square 1. However, lets say your money was actively
    managed, and net of fees you have a 10 percent lose on that same dollar,
    who will recover first? Easy answer. The actively managed fund. 

  4. Passive investing says nothing about diversification. It is simply about
    buying and selling only when moments are optune. This can be only 4 times a
    year. Not buying cause you feel like trading. Of course one should be
    fairly diversified. Not diversify diversify diversify…. . I personally
    think 7 to 10 well researched stocks are sufficient. Why buy the whole
    market when you can only buy the stocks trading at deep discount with a
    satisfactory margin of safety. Do not listen to CNBC = VERY TRUE

  5. “Markets are efficient” next minute “people’s emotions make them invest
    irrationally causing stocks to go up and down irrationally and people to
    lose money” – I think the markets are more efficient than not but not
    totally, so they are sort of efficient with plenty of errors and
    irrationality thrown in there to cause stocks not to be trading at a price
    that truly reflects the information available.

  6. “this film HAS been funded by a company that specialises in passive
    investing” Why wait to the very end for that disclosure? It puts into
    question everything you have just told us .

  7. And most people aren’t going to have the time and patience to learn and
    practice enough to find the errors. In that case, index funds for sure.

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