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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
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
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
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.
The Motley Fool
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Yes, you could buy a stock, but a better option will probably be an index-based pooled investment product, otherwise known as a fund. This is why you'll probably be best off with Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (NYSEMKT: VTI). Luckily, there's another option: exchange-traded funds (ETFs).
The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
Unlike most of the time prior to 2000, now you need 20-year holding periods to ensure you're achieving the sorts of reliable returns you'd expect -- and need -- from the stock market. After all, when those dividends are reinvested, the net returns on the right dividend stocks can rival those of some popular growth stocks.
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