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Is That a $100 Bill Lying on the Ground? Two Views of Market Efficiency In early October, Daniel Kahneman and Vernon Smith won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their research, conducted independently, into how individuals make economic decisions. The two discovered that investors are not systematically rational, as traditional economic theory asserts.   |
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The Science of Success Long-term evidence proves that discipline and diversification are more effective than trying to beat the market. But keeping financial advisory clients disciplined can be extraordinarily difficult. |
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Index Funds Are Hard to Beat An eye-opening new study from Standard & Poor's reveals that the majority of managed funds fail to outperform simple index funds. That's right -- funds run by actual human beings still can't beat a copycat strategy of matching a broad index's holdings. |
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Investments That Don't Stand a Chance An active fund that only seeks to match its benchmark is a waste of your money. If that's all a fund can offer, you're much better off going with the index fund. |
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The Incredible Shrinking Alpha The research shows that on a gross-return basis, active fund managers are able to generate alpha, exploiting the bad behavior of individual investors. |
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Are Most "Good" Fund Managers Just Lucky? It seems that the likelihood of a managed fund outperforming the market is actually even lower than we've thought. |
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Smarter Money When they do their job skillfully, active equity managers exploit market inefficiencies others choose to ignore. |
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Index Funds: Still Your Best Bet So we're running to actively managed funds now? Not so fast, my friend. When Nathan Slaughter pointed his guns at the trusty, old index fund, many had to stop and ask whether The Motley Fool was abandoning one of its oldest principles. |
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Mutual Funds: What To Do Now Wondering how to cope with the growing scandal? Here are some answers. |
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Beat the Pros at Their Own Game Which is the better hypothetical long-term investment, owning stock mutual funds or the common stocks of the companies that run those mutual funds? |
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Why Pay for Nothing? From the standpoint of the individual investor, mutual fund fees often go unnoticed. However, they're extremely significant and represent a large handicap for savers to overcome in trying to reach their financial goals. |
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Is `Buy The Market' Best? Enhanced indexers say they have the way to go the market one (or two) better. Financial advisors, take note. |
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Advisors Pick Winning Funds: Skill or Statistical Noise? A new study says advisors are better at predicting future fund winners, but is it skill or statistical noise? |
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High Net Worth: Alpha-Beta Investing This institutional strategy is starting to make inroads among high-net-worth managers. |
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Don't Try to Beat the Market It's entirely possible to be a hands-off investor and still put the long-term wealth-building power of the stock market to work for you. The secret? Index funds. |
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The Key to Successful Mutual Fund Investing Mutual fund expenses may be one of the best ways to tell whether a fund will outperform or not. |
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The Big Mo In tough and volatile market climates, advisors often cast about for alternatives to stocks and bonds. One such alternative is hedge funds. |
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Evening the Odds A significant flaw in many active-versus-passive studies occurs when tallying the number of funds that under- or out-perform an index. Three steps could help level the playing field in the active-versus-passive debate. |
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I'm Bucking the Trend Index funds are gaining momentum -- but should they? |
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Q&A with Burton Malkiel Princeton University professor Burton G. Malkiel, author of the classic text, "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," shared his thoughts on investment strategy, the capital markets and REIT investing. |
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Danger & Opportunity: He's Got the Momentum Cliff Asness, a hedge fund manager who caters to institutions, is a true believer in momentum investing. |
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Got a Minute? A big study finds that the best financial advisors are efficient in two different ways. |
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Anyone -- Even The Little Guy -- Can Beat the Market As most financial advisors know, the secret to successful investing is relatively simple: Figure out the value of something and then -- pay a lot less. |
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I Love the S&P 500 The main reason to love this index is that over time, it tends to beat the pants off the majority of managed mutual funds. |
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Beat the S&P 500 Legg Mason's Mary Chris Gay talks about why the S&P crushes most fund managers and how to beat it. |
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These 3 Tips Will Make You a Winning Investor Don't waste money on unnecessary investing costs. |
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The Truth Behind Momentum Investing The theory works, until you factor in trading costs. |
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Seeking Outstanding Mutual Funds Don't settle for below-average performance when you can earn average or better. |
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Readers Respond: Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund? Business leaders and managers who can't recognize public and investor trust as a fundamental requirement of their business should be fired or barred for life... As soon as I can beat the market on my own, I'm out of mutual funds... etc. |
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When Alpha Becomes Beta The Nobel committee sent a strong message with its choice of three scholars with widely divergent world views, perhaps signaling to the broader financial services world that people from all camps have a lot to offer as well as much to learn. |
