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The Motley Fool
MAY 16, 2024
Finding an ETF or mutual fund that can consistently beat the market year in and year out is practically impossible. Wall Street is full of sharp minds that are often willing to share their investment insights and strategies with everyday investors through a mutual fund. That's not for lack of options.
The Motley Fool
DECEMBER 15, 2024
Professional fund managers tend to be highly educated, hard-working, and extremely smart. But it doesn't take a highly complex trading plan to come out ahead of 98% of professional mutual fund managers over the long run. However, the challenge is compounded as the fund manager starts managing more capital.
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The Motley Fool
JUNE 29, 2024
Professional fund managers are in charge of investing billions of dollars for investors. It doesn't take an advanced degree or special insider knowledge to do better than the vast majority of actively-managed mutual funds. There are a couple of factors that lead to such dismal results for active funds as a group.
The Motley Fool
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Professional fund managers are extremely smart, highly educated, hard-working, and ultra-competitive. If you can perform in the top 2% of all professional fund managers on Wall Street, you're sure to find yourself with a very handsome payday at some point. All you have to do is buy a broad-based index fund and hold it for years.
The Motley Fool
JULY 29, 2024
You don't need to be a Wall Street insider to beat most actively managed mutual funds. A simple investment strategy has outperformed nearly 88% of funds over the past 15 years, and its relative performance typically gets better over time. Here are the most recent results for large-cap funds. Image source: Getty Images.
The Motley Fool
JANUARY 3, 2025
Zooming out one level, we can now engage in what I call Portfolio-Level Thinking. I'm looking at my portfolio because we can use our Rule Breaker stock traits to find stocks, and we can use our habits as investors to do things like hold on to them. You end up with a portfolio. We can now all of us, see the whole thing.
The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 2, 2024
Becoming a professional fund manager isn't easy, but it turns out that beating the returns of some of the best fund managers in the world is. It's a quirk of stock market mechanics that makes a simple investment strategy far better than the average actively managed mutual fund. Image source: Getty Images.
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