It is well documented that on average
active mutual fund tends to underperform the market. However, there is now a
further issue with mutual funds according to the recent research of Antti Petajisto formerly of Yale
University and now at Blackrock. The problem is this. The point of
owning a mutual fund is paying a team of analysts to pick stocks on your
behalf, but according to this research, a significant group of mutual funds are
no more than “closet indexers”, closer to following the market than trying to
beat it. This matters because not only are you paying a high fee, you aren’t
getting what you might expect. It’s a little like paying a premium for Gucci
loafers and then discovering that the shoes you received are remarkably similar
to a pair from Walmart Read the Article Paper at http://www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v69.n4.7
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